BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi gain FPGA add-ons

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Eric Brown
Sep 24, 2013

At the Maker Faire in New York City, ValentFX showed off two open source FPGA boards that stack with BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi SBCs, and also unveiled BBot, a BeagleBone-based drink serving robot built with an earlier FPGA board version. The FPGA add-on boards use Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9 FPGAs, offer Arduino and PMOD expansion, and are supported with open source Linux code the two ARM SBCs.

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