On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:45 -0800, uncutno wrote:
> > So, could a make a FPGA pump >10Mbps, and do what I described?
> >
> >Absolutely. Even the simplest modern FPGA can pump out 10Mbps. You'll
> >likely need to add a line driver to handle the long line, but there are
> >lots out there. 
> 
> Is the Altera's EP1K10TC100 FPGA from
> Pluto FPGA board one of these simple FPGAs?

Well I'm not that familiar with Altera's FPGAs (my experience outside of
school has been with Xilinx FPGAs), but I did have a look and it seems
to be pretty comparable with what I'm accustomed to.

That part looks like it would probably fit the bill, only concern would
be capacity. 10k gates is not to shabby, but depending on how
complicated you want to get (i.e. generating and checking CRCs, things
like credit management for flow control, and error correction) you might
find 10k gates a little tight if speed is of upmost importance. If you
keep the hardware on the simple side and do things on the processor then
10k gates is more then enough IMHO.

Before settling on a part I'd get the software and try out a few designs
and see if they fit OK at the speeds you need.

TTYL

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