[Noisebridge-discuss] FPGA experience/pointers/tips?

Christoph Maier cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 12:17:24 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:51 -0800, Mitch Altman wrote:
> There are lots of projects out there that people are sharing for the
> Xilinx board.  $150 gets you a piece of hardware that is, like,
> infinitely configurable to be almost whatever you want it to be.  Of
> course, you have to learn VHDL.
>  
>  
> Mitch.

Yea verily [or is it verilogy?], ve have other vayz to make FPGAs talk
to us ...

AFAIK both the freebie Xilinx ISE and Altera Quartus design tools speak
both Verilog and VHDL.
Are there open source compilers without the feature limitations of
Xilinx's and Altera's free tools?

- Christoph





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