Hi,
I want to begin an initial foray into FPGAs, I'm sure this subject come up regularly.
Here's my position with this:
I have reasonably good equipment for a hobbyist (I never worked in electronics professionally, moved into software in my mid 20s) like a scope and so on but have no specific tools for involved digital work (e.g. I do not have a logic analyzer for example) but willing to buy some if its helpful.
I'd say I'd be willing to plow around 500 bucks give or take to get up and running.
So, thoughts? advice?
Thanks
I want to begin an initial foray into FPGAs, I'm sure this subject come up regularly.
Here's my position with this:
- I studied digital electronics in college quite a lot in the early 80s, flip-flops, shift-registers, combinational and sequential stuff, UARTS etc.
- I've worked with TTL, CMOS and so on (again back in college) and built stuff of my own too, interfaced to microprocessors etc.
- I want to do any FPGA work by using my Windows desktop so tools etc must be OK on this platform.
- Don't want to pay huge money for software tools.
- No particular goal other than get an understanding of what can be accomplished with them, some understanding of VHDL (or whatever) etc.
I have reasonably good equipment for a hobbyist (I never worked in electronics professionally, moved into software in my mid 20s) like a scope and so on but have no specific tools for involved digital work (e.g. I do not have a logic analyzer for example) but willing to buy some if its helpful.
I'd say I'd be willing to plow around 500 bucks give or take to get up and running.
So, thoughts? advice?
Thanks
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