25 Apr
2013
25 Apr
'13
4:45 p.m.
On 4/25/2013 4:41 PM, Sytse van Slooten wrote:
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 19:58:37 David Riley
wrote:
What a lie. This is not open. I have to register.
I plan to use AHDL for my logic designs, once I figure out
the text format, so I can use my favorite text editor.
Ben.
Well, "easy". Hardware description
languages have a steep
learning curve.
If you're just starting out on them, it's
probably helpful to remember that what you're doing is a
lot more like describing a schematic in text (much like a
SPICE netlist, though with some more "programmy" bits) than
programming in a language like C. If you have some template
code you're planning on working with, that's probably a good
start (there are lots of CPU projects on opencores.org, as
well as a lot of other cores for interfaces like SPI if you
need them).
I learned much about the way a cpu is implemented from the example in
http://opencores.org/project,mcpu