Hi All,
I recently completed a project that used discrete CMOS components to do digital decoding of an encoder signal. I was stubborn and ignored everyone telling me to use FPG/CPLD and got it working perfectly with the discrete chips. Honestly I'm glad that I did and taught myself the logic design, however I think that FPGA/CPLD is a much more modern solution to these kinds of problems and think I should probably get some exposure to them.
How would you suggest someone get started in FPGA development who has zero experience in using them or VHDL/Verilog. I have a few years of microcontroller experience. Most everything I work with is 5V TTL so a product which natively supports that would be a big plus to me. I recently downloaded Xilinx ISE but don't know what development board to get. Ideally something low cost.
Thanks,
Mike
I recently completed a project that used discrete CMOS components to do digital decoding of an encoder signal. I was stubborn and ignored everyone telling me to use FPG/CPLD and got it working perfectly with the discrete chips. Honestly I'm glad that I did and taught myself the logic design, however I think that FPGA/CPLD is a much more modern solution to these kinds of problems and think I should probably get some exposure to them.
How would you suggest someone get started in FPGA development who has zero experience in using them or VHDL/Verilog. I have a few years of microcontroller experience. Most everything I work with is 5V TTL so a product which natively supports that would be a big plus to me. I recently downloaded Xilinx ISE but don't know what development board to get. Ideally something low cost.
Thanks,
Mike