New to FPGA's, couple of questions

[jbs87]

Hi all

I'm interested in learning how to program FPGA's and have a couple of questions:

)What is a good book for self study. I have a book by Samir Palnitkar? It seems to be about Verilog but do i need a book with regards to specific implementation on FPGA's?

)Where can I find some decent projects to test out my skills once I've covered the material a fair bit. It would be great if they had some sort of tips to help me along. I forgot to mention I have a Core MP7duo board which I got free from a vendor. Is it any good?

 

[System.out]

Hello,

1. Choose FPGA - Xilinx or @ltera are my recommendations
2. Read the datasheet
3. Download the software web pack, either ISE or Quartus II
4. Then read a tutorial on the software - Google is your friend
5. Write the code - verilog or vhdl - also you can try schematic capture.
6. If you have a development board you can try your code and surely there is code on the net for your development board. If you have a custom board, then you are on your own, but you can try most code out there.

Opencores.org is a good free and open source of code site.

 

[bbgil]

Got some quick tutorial here for xilinx. U must have at least the xilinx webpack. Hope this helps

 

[ram]

this one is good --
Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs, Clive Maxfield



ram

 

[Johnson]

I recommend you to start a design and in parallel read books and datasheet! it will boost your learning.

 

[ls000rhb]

If conditions allows, you can first do some experiments on fpga evalu board. quickly make sense of how fpga implemention.
BR.
ls000rhb

 

[master_picengineer]

Try this nice book