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There are mpsoc ultra scale+ chips that are under 100$ these days, so I think that's not true anymore. Even low end mpsoc ultrascale fabric is way better than t
by fooblaster 3y ago
There are mpsoc ultra scale+ chips that are under 100$ these days, so I think that's not true anymore. Even low end mpsoc ultrascale fabric is way better than that old altera stuff, with lut4 clbs, ultraram, and better dsp blocks. I've had the fabric run at 500 mhz in my designs.
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- rtkwe 3y agoThe issue with any other board is that the boards aren't going to have all the same ports and compatibility so you'd have to have potentially two largely separate forks of the cores and accessories which would be tough in a relatively small community like the Mister. For example your board doesn't have the large pin headers used by basically every Mister accessory so at a minimum you'd need an adaptor to go from some other port on your board to the pinouts that the mister ecosystem is built on.
- phendrenad2 3y agoWhat kills that board (and many like it) is the absolutely proprietary SYZYGY connector, which is surface-mount (so hobbyists won't develop a board ecosystem for it, and aliexpress circuit cloners won't do their thing unless there's a proven ecosystem), and probably $10 in high quantities (if it's even in stock). RIP. I'm not even sure that board has enough overall I/O to connect a VGA output, controller inputs, and a SDRAM chip (all of which are essential to a viable MiSTer replacement - note that no one has figured out how to use DDR RAM for emulation yet, too much seek latency).