Viewing posts from October, 2011
I wrote last month about using Upverter, and now there's a new OSHW repository on the scene: Solderpad. While Upverter is trying to provide both cloud-based design tools and a repository, Solderpad has taken a more modest path and provides only a place for you to store your designs after you've used whatever tool you want to create them. So you might ask how that's any different from just storing your design on Github. Well, in addition to the Git-based repository, Solderpad adds these capabilities: <<more...>>
As FPGAs work their way into the hobbyist/maker community, I'm guessing a lot of you are trying to learn VHDL and Verilog. (You can try to use schematics, but the Xilinx editor is pretty poor.) Which language you choose is up to you, but I'll only talk about VHDL in this post. There's general agreement that if you know one, it's easy to learn the other.
There's no shortage of VHDL books (around 100 on Amazon) or online tutorials (Google lists 278,000 but I haven't checked them all), so there's no need for me to waste my energy doing another. Instead, what I will do is tell you how to use the existing books & tutorials to learn the use of VHDL in synthesizing logic for FPGAs.
