That Spartan 6 FPGA can probably boot on a softcore with mainline Linux support. It has enough fabric space (74k logic cells) to implement some smaller RV32 designs.

[–] Gronk@aussie.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Mad that FPGA looks pretty cheap to toy around with thanks for letting me know!

I dream of making a SBC that has an FPGA and modular cable system to emulate as many device interfaces as possible

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

No problem! I've similar goals, though I tend to be too exhausted in my free time as of late. The 6 series are a bit long in the tooth at this point (there's 3 or 4 newer generations). They probably won't give amazing performance, though they're still used in logic analyzers. Probably great to learn on though.

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