Please help me identify the purpose of this board that I bought for IC recovery
I bought this board on eBay to get the Virtex-6 off of it. It was very reasonable. It's a very interesting board and has more to it than just the FPGA. There are two Maxim chips that are NDA only chips - MAX5880 and MAX5882. In addition, the board is, for all appearances, new and looks to me to be state of the art. Any idea what this was meant to be? What the heck do I have here?
P.S. I claim this is related to Arduino because there is an Atmel uC on the board.
These SRAMs are odd. For an SRAM chip, the company that makes them is secretive and seems to not sell through distributors. There are no datasheets available unless you contact their sales department. What is up with that?
Those linear power chips are pricey! Two of these new is less than what I paid for the scrap board.
And these mysterious chips... Wonder what they cost. Of course to me they are worth nothing because the datasheets are not available and this is definitely above my pay grade anyway...
westfw:
I don't suppose you're interested in some Xilinx XCV1600-8FG1156 ~2M gate FPGA from ~2002 ?
New and sealed in the original box. 1156-ball BGAs.
I'm probably not even good enough to implement this FPGA. There is a lot to learn here, not the least of it is getting the thing on a PCB. So far, all I have worked on is a Spartan III on a well-made development board (plus several CPLDs, both Altera and Xilinx). I want it to be a challenge but I think I have all the FPGAs I need for the time being.
