I am a newbie in FPGA depv, please help me choose a KIT? thanks all
Hello! Since nobody answered until now, I will summarize my experiences with VHDL, which I gained during the last weeks. In other words I am a newbie as well. I asked a similar question to this forum in German language and I received the answer to try the free develoment environments from Xilinx and Altera and decide which one I like more. Altera comes with a nice interactive tutorial but I have chosen Xilinx, because the CPLDs and FPGAs are easier to buy here in Germany. Yes, the availibility of the components for private persons was my argument to go ahead with Xilinx although I liked the IDE and the boards from Altera better. So try both Xilinx Design Suite and Altera Quartus. For your information: I bought a Xilinx Spartan 3AN board, a few CPLDS and a Digilent JTAG cable. I soldered a CPLD on an adapter and used that as a testing device. See the images shown in my question titled "maximale Xilinx CPLD clock Frequenz". To be honest the Spartan 3AN was not used until now. However this will happen soon, because VHDL is real fun. In other words I recommend: 1. Start with the IDEs and decide which one you like better 2. Check if you there are CPLDs and FPGAs available for private persons for a reasonable price 3. Decide which vendor you like 4. Start with CPLDs, these do not loose the code after restart. You only need a programmer for that, a CPLD and a bread board. 5. Go ahead with some development board In addition: Please tell what you would like to do and describe your knowledge. Cheers Reinhard
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