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author: Zh4ng
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 05:58:29 pm
content: Hi,I bought on ebay for a few bucks following demo board.Unfortunately, I have found nothing to the board on the Internet.Would any of you know what it is?It was an impulse buyThank you .....Zh4ng

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 06:24:01 pm
content: It is an obsolete Xilinx XC2000 series thingy. It is pre FPGA, even CPLD, called FPLA . It was in production from 86 to 99. I think this came from a University. It very much resembles this board I could find:http://bear.ces.cwru.edu/eecs_317/demo_board.htmlThe buttons are the same, both of them has "043xxx" numbering on it. Maybe you should contact them.

author: Zh4ng
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 07:54:43 pm
content: thanks for the tip. I hope I can use the board sometimes with more Information.Otherwise it will be a beautifull wall decoration.Thx Zhang...

author: marshallh
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 08:06:29 pm
content: That's dated 1986, 51st week. Real museum piece

author: Zh4ng
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 08:21:22 pm
content: Quote from: marshallh on November 07, 2013, 08:06:29 pmOK. My new wall decoration.<mantra on>what have I learned? do not buy any shit on ebay. <mantra off>

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 07, 2013, 08:54:08 pm
content: Quote from: Zh4ng on November 07, 2013, 08:21:22 pmBut you know that you will be doing it again...

author: Crazy Ape
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 08:22:37 am
content: Quote from: Zh4ng on November 07, 2013, 08:21:22 pmLike buying anything from anywhere, do your research BEFORE you hit the buy button.

author: Zh4ng
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 09:06:17 am
content: Quote from: Crazy Ape on November 08, 2013, 08:22:37 amsad nur true....

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 08, 2013, 11:57:33 am
content: Apparently the XC2064 is the very first FPGA that Xilinx produced, so indeed it is quite museum-worthy...A datasheet!http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-59/fa10/resources/Xilinx-history/xc2000.pdfMaybe you could get it working to do something

author: nkavv
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: November 25, 2013, 04:22:51 pm
content: Whoa! A venerable and memorable piece of technology indeed.I think that at the FPGA 2013 conference they intended to have a demo session with olde (sic) FPGA machinery. Don't know if they had it eventually.BTW you might be able to program this with a Xilinx Foundation. I recall my first exposition was Foundation 2.0 or so, this would be around 1998 (that I got hands on). Following that, started using Webpacks from their earliest versions, but I don't recall the family being supported there.I'm also in a crusade/search (since some years) for some rare application notes (XAPP's). Initially, Xilinx had promised them to be released, but they changed their minds. I'm talking about the "motion estimation" and "motion compensation" application notes. This would be around XAPP 61X.Does anyone know what has happened to them?I'm also looking for some very early xapp's prior xapp030.Best regardsNikolaos Kavvadiashttp://www.nkavvadias.com

author: MrAureliusR
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 26, 2013, 03:28:25 am
content: Quote from: Zh4ng on November 07, 2013, 08:21:22 pmIf you want to sell just the chip, give me a PM. I'll give you a few bucks for it, if you're interested.