01:21 <d1b2> <al73rna> I hope you don’t mind me asking as I’m a total and utter noob. I was wondering, whats the difference between glasgow and an average fpga dev board? Couldn’t other fpga boards be programmed to run the same firmware and tools? Again, sorry for the dumb question.

01:26 <whitequark> Glasgow is a board that carries specialized hardware you can use to safely interface with many different kinds of electronics without any fear of frying the FPGA if you do something wrong, and also do other things such as: power off-board devices, very rapidly transfer data

01:27 <whitequark> in addition it has a software/firmware stack that enables extremely rapid development of functionality, mere lines required for what, were you start from scratch, would need days or weeks of work to get going

01:27 <whitequark> we do not support running the Glasgow tools on other boards because the support load would be unbearable

01:27 <whitequark> however it is written internally as a collection of reusable libraries, and if you wanted, and knew what you were doing, you could quite easily run Glasgow applets most wherever you want