Looking for FPGA book for newbie

[amrstaha]

FPGA getting started

I a newbie to FPGA. Please provide me with a good book to start with. I have Altium DXP, how can I use this to help me do FPGA designs. I fluent in using microcontrollers and DSPs, will this help?

Thank you in advance.

 

[ahmad_abdulghany]

Re: FPGA getting started

Check this post,



I had uploaded a good book there,

Try it..

Best Regards,
Ahmad,

 

[samcheetah]

FPGA getting started

welcome to the world of FPGAs. there are a number of books that you should download from here. one is the Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs by Maxfield. and you should download the Verilog HDL book by Samir Palintkar or if you want to start with VHDL, then Circuit Design with VHDL (MIT Press) will be good.

FPGAs are alot different from microcontrollers and DSPs. you will get to know that once you start using FPGAs.

first of all you should buy a development kit. there are a number of options available like the famous Xilinx Spartan 3 Starter Kit or the Altium LiveDesign Evaluation Kit. both are priced at $99. but if you could spend a little extra bucks you should go for the Xilinx Spartan 3E Starter Kit priced at $149.

Altium DXP would be helpful if you are using the Altium LiveDesign Evaluation Kit or the Nanoboard. for third party boards (like the Xilinx boards) you will have to buy the Universal JTAG connector.

start learning Xilinx ISE and Modelsim. start from basic gates, adders, multiplexers then ALU and UART type of stuff.

have fun

i hope that helps

 

[salma ali bakr]

Re: FPGA getting started

thnx guys for the help....we all benefited...
so anyone should start FPGA by:

- getting a kit
- knowing one HDL at least
- and just doing tutorials

is that right...

i know the design flow well....it will be all the "how to use the tool" issue then...

hope it is easy to start in all of that

 

[samcheetah]

FPGA getting started

yes it is easy. just read the help files.

at first dont get yourself into the overwhelming details. try some designs, ask questions and then move onto the details

i hope that helps

 

[squirrel]

Re: FPGA getting started

hi
take a look at the following link, it might help



bye

 

[mfarahat]

FPGA getting started

thanks for your help, I greatfully very thanks because this book help me a lot.

 

[vishwa]

Re: FPGA getting started

Go to www.altera.com and www.xilinx.com, They provide verygood material in their university program section.

 

[haseebcu]

Re: FPGA getting started

Try the link

 

[haseebcu]

Re: FPGA getting started

I tried to open the site www.@ltera.com
But it did not open what to do now.