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How do you get into HDL and FPGAs? Seems like it will become a more and more important skill since all other avenues in performance improvement have come to a h
by imbusy111 8y ago
How do you get into HDL and FPGAs? Seems like it will become a more and more important skill since all other avenues in performance improvement have come to a halt.
- jsbto 8y agoCould try something like Icarus Verilog for an open source compiler and start building some toy designs. There are some good communities and blogs to find help.
- rjsw 8y agoI just picked up a dev board and started making it flash LEDs, put patterns on the seven-segment display, then had a play with soft CPUs. This gave me ideas on how to use the technology in my job - embedded networking. If you are coming from a software background then maybe look at getting a board with one of the ARM+FPGA hybrid chips, you can run a proper OS on the ARM CPU and I would guess that the bus interface to the FPGA part will be simpler than using Intel's UPI.
- vvanders 8y agoI like http://www.fpga4fun.com/ http://www.fpga4fun.com/ as a decent high level overview + a bunch of great tutorials. Grab a Lattice CPLD/FPGA demo board($25-$50) and have at it!