I started playing with FPGA's while in uni (on my own) when I found out NI's Multisim had the option to export your logic circuits as vhdl. So I used my student

I started playing with FPGA's while in uni (on my own) when I found out NI's Multisim had the option to export your logic circuits as vhdl. So I used my student email to get a copy of Multisim and get a discount on a Digilent Nexus 2. I was drawing logic circuits and then running them on my board. I was having a lot of fun with it but focus shifted and haven't touched FPGA's since.