[Coco] OT: FPGA Guys out there

[Jayeson Lee-Steere]

If you already know digital logic reasonably well and are just missing the
programmable logic bit, this (loooong) LED blinker tutorial looked to me
like a good place to start experimenting:

http://www.xess.com/appnotes/FpgasNowWhatBook.pdf

It looks to be very complete, from performing simulation in the tools to
debugging on hardware. It is written for XESS's fairly inexpensive XuLA
board. All that said, I have not received my XuLA yet to try it.

- Jayeson

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the book link...  did a web search and found a site with some
> excerpts.  Looks like a good book.
>
> I have a couple of VHDL books and while they are good and describing the
> language, they lack in real world examples like you all have said.
>
> I guess in the end I just have to keep at it and hope fully it will sink
> in sooner rather than later.
>
>
>
> Adam Green <adamgrym at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> ><<quote Louis Ciotti>>
> >Short of spending $$ on a course can someone recommend some reading
> >material to get a true beginner of using FPGAs up to speed and
> >programming/making useful things with them?
> ><</quote>>
> >
> >I have purchased a number of books related to FPGAs in the past but most
> of them were a waste.  The one I found really useful for learning Verilog
> and/or VHDL was "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by David and
> Sarah Harris.  It uses Verilog and VHDL to explain computer architecture,
> MIPS mostly.
> >
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-Edition/dp/0123944244
> >
> >
> >-Adam
> >
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