Parallella Community

Hi All,

This might sound daft to some here but I was wondering if there was a way to connect this board to the Parallella....


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/157 ... l?ref=live



Kind Regards,



Julian.

I'm sure a cable or interface adapter could be hacked together, and it might be nice to see something like the latter that adapts from Parallella to Pi/BeagleBone expansion headers anyway. Although ideally there would be a third, Parallella, version of it.

But the real question would be, why would you want to do this? Since Parallella includes an FPGA and plenty of expansion... I did get excited when I saw the SATA connector, but they clearly state that this is for generic LVDS expansion and does not support actual SATA devices.

Cheers,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Yes I was excited when I saw the SATA connector, as I know many have been asking about SATA.

Oh well I'll keep looking.


Kind Regards,


Julian.

LOGi-Pi ($89) + Raspberry Pi ($35) = $124
Parallella ($99)

Parallella wins!

One more thing...

Parallella also has 16 core accelerator and dual core ARM A9 !

On first glance...


LOGi-Pi (or Bone) has SATA connector....(but not for E-SATA )



I know that Parallella wins on the price and the power of cores, that's why I purchased one and never went near a Pi or BeagleBone.


Kind Regards,


Julian.

Gigabit transceiver blocks are needed to implement SATA interface, but LOGi uses XC6SLX9. (has no Gb transceiver, and smallest one)

XC6SLX9 : $15.69 at Digi-Key
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/2339919

The cheapest Spartan-6 with Gb transceiver is XC6SLX25T, but it is rather expensive.

XC6SLX25T : $48.34 at Digi-Key
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/2339981

Parallella lacks Gb transceiver, too.

In conclusion, Gb transceiver is too expensive!
That's why almost all the cheap dev board doesn't support SATA.

How about this?

http://opencores.org/project,sata_controller_core

http://opencores.org/project,sata_phy

Personally, I think NAS is more convenient than SATA.
And Parallella already has Gigabit Ethernet!