From where should I start learning about FPGA?

[garidi]

help on fpga

hello everybody,
I am totally new to fpga's and i would like to receive some advices for beginning.
eg. ebooks on fpga's, tools, tutorials...
I have an average knowledge on pics (84,877)

thank you

 

[cedance]

Re: help on fpga

this would be a good choice to start with.



/cedance

 

[FoxyRick]

Re: help on fpga

Here's a good site:

https://www.fpga4fun.com/index.html

Are you interested in FPGA's for work or for fun? Do you really need to start with FPGA's?

If it's for fun and you don't really need FPGA's huge capabilities, investigate CPLD's instead. Much cheaper to get into, not as many pins to solder, but can be programmed in much the same way.

Some other useful sites:

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https://www.opencores.org/browse.cgi/by_category
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Cheers,
FoxyRick.

 

[dddhacker]

Re: help on fpga

The design warriors guide is a good starting point about FPGA. But it would not teach you any thing about actual implementation. You must get a book that teaches FPGA based design from ground up.

VHDL programming by example ( available here)

is such a book . Teaches you how to design a microporocessor on altera FPGA.

 

[Sparc]

Re: help on fpga

You can also look up the following:

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& for starting xilinx ISE webpack is available from Xilinx site.