[Noisebridge-discuss] misc FPGA questions

[Jonathan Foote]

Oh durr, the link: http://www.demandperipherals.com/baseboard4.html

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan Foote <jtfoote at ieee.org> wrote:
> Haven't personally used it, but this $150 FPGA board looks like a
> great entry point. It's USB-programmable and Linux-friendly, though
> you still need the Xilinx tools to compile code for it (AFAIK FPGA
> software toolchains are tightly coupled to the hardware manufacturers
> and there there are few or no open-source alternatives, though they
> have free-beer versions)
>
> I know Bob does FPGA workshops based on his board, maybe we could get
> him to come and give one here.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Mike Schachter <mike at mindmech.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hola noisebridge-discuss! A long time ago I used Symphony-EDA
>> to debug an FPGA:
>>
>> http://www.symphonyeda.com/
>>
>> Some day I'd like to buy an FPGA and play around with it, but
>> they seem to cost like $500+. I don't really know much about them,
>> and was wondering if anyone could help me with some questions:
>>
>> 1) Are there free, open source IDE's available for writing code
>> for a FPGA?
>>
>> 2) Where can I buy an FPGA cheaply? What is "cheap" for an FPGA?
>> I want to use them for parallel processing, mostly for prototypes,
>> and don't really care how much power they consume. I need a
>> starter FPGA (which I will probably break) to learn the ropes.
>>
>> 3) Does anyone know FPGAs enough to teach a class in it? I'd be
>> into some sort of knowledge exchange or maybe a donation to Noisebridge
>> in return for an "Introduction to FPGAs" class.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>  mike
>>
>>
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