25 Apr
2013
25 Apr
'13
7:23 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/25/2013 07:45 PM, ben 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.
Oh good lord, yes you have to register, get over it. It is VERY
open. Opencores is a very well-respected organization. You type your
name in order to gain access to gazillions of dollars' worth of IP.
What the hell are people thinking these days?!
Check
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