Estimado Herbert,

Con fecha viernes, 07 de febrero de 2003, 7:34:27, escribis:

>> Can anyone on list offer any pointers for someone looking at getting into
>> programmable logic? FPGA's and CPLD's etc.
>> Good starting point?
>> What language do you recommend? I read a little on verilog and
>> VHDL but dont
>> really have a clue in this arena.
>> Recommended reading? on and offline.
>> what manufaturers platform do you recommend? Ive been looking at xilinx.

HG>         Thanks to a project at work I was exposed to Xilinx's 9500 series CPLDs.
HG> There are GREAT to work with, very easy to get going with them. The software
HG> is free and includes both Verilog and VHDL support, programmer software and
HG> a good sim. The programmer itself is pretty simple to build (although I used
HG> the programmer we have at work).

HG>         As for language I personally prefer Verilog, by a large margin. Coming from
HG> a programming background Verilog seems more "natural" to me, it's quite "C"
HG> like in the way it does things. VHDL is OK, but I was just never very
HG> comfortable with it.

HG> Hope this helped. TTYL

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     You can take a look at Altera website, you can use the most advanced
  tool in FPGA programming using Quartus II, with a very nice
  interface. Also they have many chips to work with.
     And I program VHDL (don't know much Verilog) is very easy, but
  you have to remember to program a circuit, you are not programming a
  software program. You program a RTL logic or a behaviour.
     And an ISP programmer is byteblaster, very easy to build.
     With this you have too much to start, take a look at Altera,
  Xilinx and lately Actel is coming to the consumers side.

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