More Pictures

s1axter posted on Tue. January 30th 2007 at 12:36 PM PST

Well I took and uploaded some pictures of the CPLD the traffic controller is loaded onto. The main board is the Xilinx CoolRunnerII development board. This development board also has the XC9500XL low power chip from Xilinx on it...two chips for the price of one...cool.

The board attached at the bottom of the development board is the Digilent DIO1 board. Digilent ( http://www.digilentinc.com ) makes boards and cards for a number of companies including Xilinx. The DIO1 board connects all the pins for the 7-segment displays, buttons, LEDs and switches directly to the edge pin connector, Xilinx's pin mapping tool allows you to connect the outputs from the CoolRunner to the desired pins. It's a cool setup and fun to program.

The DIO1 is no longer made, but it is quite useful if you get your hands on one. The DIO1 page is:
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=DIO1&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Older

You can pickup the CoolRunnerII design kit for $49 from Xilinx here: http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=DO-CPLD-DK

Enjoy the pics and let me know of you have any projects you want here :-)

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