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Which ones of these have companion textbooks (preferably a nice one) associated with them? Ideally I'd love one with gigabit ethernet and a multicore arm that
by harry8 8y ago
Which ones of these have companion textbooks (preferably a nice one) associated with them?
Ideally I'd love one with gigabit ethernet and a multicore arm that slots into a pcie slot and doesn't cost the earth but I'm probably dreaming...
- lnsru 8y agoI heard, Digilent has a book for their ZynQ boards. I haven’t tried by myself: https://store.digilentinc.com/the-zynq-book/ https://store.digilentinc.com/the-zynq-book/
- q3k 8y agoI have this book. It won't teach you neither digital logic nor hardware design. I highly recommend against learning any of these with a complex board like the Zynq, and instead getting a simple iCE40-based FPGA and starting from blinking a few LEDs and writing an UART peripheral.
- bri3d 8y agoI agree. My first project was a dual port SRAM emulator on iCE40 with UART bus snoop to enable real time tuning of really old BMW Motronic ECUs. This was a pretty fun/easy first project and had about the right scope. I started in icecube and eventually moved over to the OSS toolchain which was nice as well. If I had started by trying to accelerate some kind of complex algorithm attached to a microcontroller I doubt I'd have finished.
- q3k 8y agoYou don't need such a powerful device if you're learning from scratch. It will be more of an impediment because of its high complexity and low count of easy to access breakout pins for experimenting.