Re:How We Turned 8 Popular STM32 Boards into Powerful Logic ...
by dragontamer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:24PM
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Point. I think most of the chips I was thinking about are simpler SDRAM controllers.
Nonetheless, I still think that you're grossly underestimating the needs of the FPGA / Logic Analyzer. The product communicates to the PC over USB for instance, performs RAM-level compression and seems to handle some logic-analyzing tasks as well (considering it natively supports I2C, UART, and the like).
EDIT: I think I see where you're coming from now. The next steps then would be licensing issues then. Like whether or not a company could effectively sell the IP-block of the memory-controller and distribute it over the internet (as what has happened in this project).
Nonetheless, I still think that you're grossly underestimating the needs of the FPGA / Logic Analyzer. The product communicates to the PC over USB for instance, performs RAM-level compression and seems to handle some logic-analyzing tasks as well (considering it natively supports I2C, UART, and the like).
EDIT: I think I see where you're coming from now. The next steps then would be licensing issues then. Like whether or not a company could effectively sell the IP-block of the memory-controller and distribute it over the internet (as what has happened in this project).