RE: CPLD/FPGA course

I switched from Xylinx to Altera years ago and so tend to recommend their
stuff.  Their Quartus software is free , I recommend version 9.1 as there
is still waveforms for testing instead of text prinout.  There are also
tons of literature on their site.  Software and lit also free from Xylinx.

To get from reading PDF's  to something that you can interact with I
recommend grabbing a development board such as
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/partners/kit-terasic-de0-nano.html
for $86 USD
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&Categor
yNo=53&No=83  $150
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3-starter.html
$199

You could start with the old Max series which act more like CPLDs than
Cyclones and there are some cheaper development boards $20-$50
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/max-index.jsp

I am in the process of developing an Altera based board that can be loaded
from an Arduino, I think learning to "write hardware" is a great
experience.

Other Dev Kit pages on Altera's site
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/cyclone-index.jsp
http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp

Bil


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[mailto:owner-cbm-hackers@musoftware.de] On Behalf Of didier derny
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Subject: Re: CPLD/FPGA course

thanks

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didier

Le 07/06/2012 17:26, Ruud@Baltissen.org a écrit :
> Help yourself:
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> http://www.baltissen.org/temp/DigitalDesign.pdf
> http://www.baltissen.org/temp/Designer.pdf
> http://www.baltissen.org/temp/Designer.zip
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> The first one is the book I owned. If you wonder about the neat
> scanning, no, I didn't create this PDF. Finding it I remembered that I
> found it as an Ebook as well on internet.
>
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