Anyone don't want his/her board? I'll buy...

[ali8]

Hello,

If anyone want to sell his/her Parallela board, please PM me.

ali8

[ali8]

I am welling to buy the $99 board by a lot more than that. I really need it.

[Gravis]

to my knowledge, the only people with parallella systems are those with engineering samples of the 16 and 64 core chips that connect to a FPGA board. this means they put in lots-o-money. the 100 buck boards arent out but expected to ship in august. however, you have many options.

if you have the money there are epiphany boards that are expansions to FPGA boards but they are expensive. the epiphany chip is called Anemone104 on these expansions: http://www.bittware.com/products-servic ... -for-fpgas

if you simply need a manycore processor, there are other processors. xmos has a manycore chip that can run up to 32 logical cores at 50MHz or 16 at 100MHz. a logical core is basically a thread but executes in perfect lockstep so you can execute more things at once. you can get a dev board for $100. http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/2187029
it's a normal dev board that connects your PC via USB for programming/debugging.

if you need the speed there is a third option, OpenCL. basically, that nifty GPU in your PC can do lots of things very fast in parallel but to get that speed the programming can be awkward.

if you really want to develop for the epiphany chip but dont have the money you can wait for the emulator i'm writing to be finished but the real thing board may come out before it's done and while i hope to finish it in a few weeks and i cant guarantee anything about when or even if it will be completed. you wont get full speed but it will be the same instruction set and you should be able to use the parallella SDK. the core technology behind the emulator is OpenCL.

[hamster]

[ali8]

@Gravis, thanks a lot for all that information.

I am not willing to pay lots of money, anything more than $200 is beyond my abilities. I am looking forward to see your emulator!

@hamster, I am basically interested in the board as a low cost solution that combines Zynq chip with Epiphany chip...I have experience programming microcontrollers, x86 processors and FPGAs (to a less extent), with this board I would be able to utilize the many core chip in lots of ways.

The project I am considering now is to build a GPS receiver and utilize the Epiphany to off-load the FFTs. With the "partial reconfiguration" feature of the Xilinx FPGA, you can implement both GPS and GLONASS on the same board, without the need to have a very large FPGA that actually have both of them at the same time.

There are a lot of open-source GPS/GLONASS projects, so that should not be a problem, only thing is to translate the c-code to VHDL...