Bari Ari schrieb:
Quux wrote:
the xilinx looks nicer than the altera except the latter pas pci and also some example designs as pci expansion cards come with it. on the little patch area there may be just enough space for some small-outline memory like RAM, connector to plcc socket or such. --Q
What advantage to you see with PCI over USB and Ethernet? PCI is disappearing from desktop/server mainboards and was never on laptops except in the form of miniPCI. USB and Ethernet is available on almost all desktop/server mainboards and laptops.
You can do memory mapped I/O which is fast and simple. Physics cards are mostly PCI cards for speed reasons. A hardware chess computer would best be done as pci card too, I guess. You could work towards hardware debugger capabilities using a compact NMI-Service Routine. for our purpose, both systems are eligible tho. --Q