I made a DIY HSMC Paralella carrier to connect one of the eLink interfaces to an Altera Cyclone V FPGA.
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I got the mating connectors directly from Samtec, HSMC Samtec from DigiKey, PCBs made by Bay Area Circuits (designed in DipTrace). I got a desktop stencil for the top layer from BAC to apply solder paste and ran it in a T-962A reflow oven. The bottom HSMC connector I carefully applied paste by hand and did a second reflow pass. This was actually my first project with the oven, and was surprised how well it turned out. It did take a few attempts to get it right.
I've been working on some Verilog to communicate with the Epiphany. I'm fairly new to HDL, so any pointers would be great! I currently have a basic receiver/aligner working that's up on GtHub https://github.com/wtfuzz/epiphany_altera
I seem to be updating and checking twitter more these days instead of forums, so if anyone's interesting in following along: @inet_ntoa
Cheers!