Thanks to all of you,
I have a VHDL cookbook, I visited XIlinx, Atmel, Actel, and altera websites, I'm trying to download the ISE that masai_mara recomended.
Cube_007, regarding your questions, I have no specific application this moment, but I think there is going to be quite a few in a near future. I think I can replace some tasks actually performed by a MCU.
About my current knowledge, I know about electronics, but I have never worked with a PLD or FPGA in the past, I don't even know what is VHDL (I know by now is a kind of programing lenguange, correct me if I'm wrong) or verilog. and finally I really don't know how much to spend since I have just started to dig for some information about development kits.
Based in your experiences Guys wich company would you recomend ?? Altera, Xilinx, Actel ??
Thanks a lot for all the help posted
FLY_PT