13 Nov
2011
13 Nov
'11
11:16 a.m.
I'd love
to get into FPGA hacking. But not nearly enough so to
tolerate [..] "you have to run our closed-source code". :-?
From a
_hobbyist_ perspective, I am not sure you're missing much.
I've designed with FPGas as part of a job, and didn't enjoy it much.
It is very different from designing logic cirucitry the old-fashioned
way for a start. For a one-off design, where size is no real issue, I
much prefer to
grab a handful of TTL pacakges and start soldering.
...for small things, so would I. (Well, I'd probably start with
solderless breadboarding in most cases.) But for something requiring
many thousands of gates, like, oh, say, a PDP-11 CPU, to pick a totally
random example :), that's not quite so practical.
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