30 Aug
2010
30 Aug
'10
7:40 p.m.
On 8/30/10 10:03 PM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
I got started by following some examples, simple stuff like a binary
counter followed by a 7-segment decoder driving an LED. I did a little
with VHDL, then quickly developed a preference for Verilog (less of the
"designed by committee" feel) but all of the commercial stuff I've done
with this, using CPLDs, was very small and I did it with schematics. I
just found that my brain works better that way.
I'll see if I can find the examples I started with. They won't apply
to the current WebPACK user interface because this was around 2001 or
so, but they may be helpful anyway.
-Dave
PS - I have a box of stuff ready to go out to you, you'll hear from me
about that soon!
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I recommend
picking up one of the Xilinx-based Digilent boards.
They're inexpensive and very nice. Xilinx has a freely-downloadable
toolchain (WebPACK) that works very well. It even has "real" Linux
support nowadays. The free stuff supports all but the very largest of
their FPGAs.
Dave, I have everything set up, but still no "start here"...VHDL seems
easy, but I just don't know where to start! :oO