25 Apr
2013
25 Apr
'13
11:35 p.m.
On 04/25/2013 08:18 PM, David Riley wrote:
Definitely! FPGAs (and programmable logic in general)
are a lot
of fun despite the somewhat steep learning curve. It's really
hard to find GOOD FPGA programmers out there (we usually run
into software people who have been unwillingly shoehorned into
FPGA dev and treat it like a CPU, so don't make that mistake),
so if you get good at it, it can make you some real money. Lots
of money to be made cleaning up after bad FPGA programmers, if
my job is any indication.
I have to admit that my big hurdle isn't writing the implementation
code, but rather writing GOOD verification/simulation code. It seems
that no matter how thorough you think you were, there's always a gotcha
somewhere that you didn't think of that rears its ugly head when you
actually try to use the thing. Thank heavens that the stuff is
RE-programmable...
--Chuck