xilinx fpga beginners
The practical Xilinx Designer Lab book by "Dave Van den Bout" from prentice hall is a very good starting point for beginners in fpga field. In this book two proto boards from XESS Corporation are described with schematics etc. - XS40 board for Xilinx FPGA XC4005XL and XS95 for Xilinx XC95108 CPLD. The s/w for this boards are free and can be downed from
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along with pdf manuals and source code etc.
I am trying to do the board in cadstar and will post the schematic and spool file in the forum as soon as it is ready