
If any makers know about this OSH dev tool, post up in the comments –
The PLAICE is a powerful open source in-circuit development tool that combines the features of: FLASH Programmer + Emulator + High Speed Multi-Channel Logic Analyzer …. All Into One Device!










You have a picture of a Xilinx Spartan-3E Starter Kit. It is FPGA field programmable gate array development kit. I haven’t used the Xilinx kit but I used a similar FPGA from Altera for their FPGAs in a college class that I just took.
The web page for the kit is at
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/designResources/ip_product_details.jsp?key=HW-SPAR3E-SK-US
here is a tinyURL in case that one breaks
http://tinyurl.com/rfbc9
Coincidentally, I’ll be using that same board for my “Digital System Design: Tools and Techniques” course this summer.
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