[Milkymist-devel] Schematics Milkymist One

[Henk]

Hi Sebastien,

The high speed DAC's ADC.s are just an example. The USRP2 now sells for
1500 EURO which is a bit to expensive for my taste.

In my opinion, the biggest (small) revolution would come if users would
be able to have a general purpose GPL based FPGA platform running Linux.
This goal is thanks to MilkiMist now within reach.

Key to this revolution is to create a community with enough critical
mass that it will be sustainable. In order to attract a wider user base
and to ensure there's not only a MM-One but many other MM's will follow
from different vendors.

Expandability is a key feature it will potentially attract and bundle
resources that are now fragmented in the FPGA community.

Needless to say with or without headers please I am excitedly looking
forward to MM1.

Regards,
Henk




On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:42:48AM +0100, S?bastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 29 March 2010 11:48:37 Henk wrote:
> > I was looking at the version 1 schematics and was wondering if there's
> > some expansion possibillity.
> > 
> > For example can we later-on add 2 high speed AD DA converters?
> 
> We are planning to add an expansion header. However, this is not a priority - 
> the priority is to get together a "version 1.0" VJ station, for which high-
> speed ADCs are no use. The expansion header will be there only if routing it 
> is not a mess.
> 
> If you are interested in DA conversion only, you can hack the VGA out for 
> that. It has a pretty decent converter (3x8-bit @140MHz).
> 
> S?bastien