Re: FPGA dev board and Xilinx tool or other tools, from NetBSD

[Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl%beer.org@localhost>]

On 16-Sep-08, at 2:11 PM, Michael Kell Jensen wrote:

> Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > On 16-Sep-08, at 12:56 PM, Michael Kell Jensen wrote:
> > > Are there anybody running, connecting to a xilinx (or other)  
> > > development FPGA board, with youe NetBSD OS, either by running  
> > > Xilinx dev tools, or via some other means (opensource program  
> > > connecting to serial or USB).
> > > Then i would love to hear some tips tricks.
> > Only via a BDI2000 using gdb; which is probably not what you want  
> > to do.
>
> Well My first thought was a direct connection from my Computer to  
> the FPGA board via serial or USB.
>
> I can see it is some hardware debugging unit this BDI2000?
> What is the ca. cost of such units?

I don't know. My employer bought them.  I assume O($3k)....

If serial is all you want, then a simple serial cable should work.  I  
assume you wanted to load an FPGA or do JTAG work in which case I  
can't help you.