MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS
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Reconfigurable Interconnect Peripheral Processor Board
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DATE: july 1994
TITLE: Reconfigurable Interconnect Peripheral Processor Board
Reconfigurable Interconnect Peripheral Processor Board
(Contributed by Nick Tredennick of Altera Corp.)
An ISA-bus-compatible PLD-based reconfigurable logic board,
designed by Dave Van den Bout of Xess Corporation (designer of
the AnyBoard) is available from Altera. The board contains the
bus driver/receivers, an EP330, an EPF8452, four 128Kx8 SRAMs,
and eight empty sockets which can accommodate either an Altera
EPF81188 FLEX device (12,000 usable gates) or an IQ160 programm-
able interconnect chip (mounted on a special adapter).
The board requires an IBM-compatible PC with an ISA bus slot.
You must have Altera's Max+Plus II software development tools
with FLEX support. (The Max+Plus II development tools require
16MB of RAM.)
If you need EPF81188s, please contact your local distributor.
Altera began shipping the reconfigurable interconnect peripheral
processor (RIPP 10) product in May. For $995 you get the ISA bus
PC board, a diskette with essential utilities, a preliminary
user's manual, and a short cable for the external connector. The
board should be ordered directly from Altera (as opposed to ord-
ering from a distributor).
If you have an interesting application for the board or would
like to obtain more information about the RIPP 10 product, please
contact:
Nick Tredennick
TEL: (408)-894-8000
FAX: (408)-433-3945
nickt@altera.com
dbouldin@utk.edu