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learning FPGA for beginners
AndreZheng:
Take a look at this QMTECH Artix7 board. The main FPGA is Xilinx XC7A35T which has 35K LEs. If you want to have it, I can give you a diploma price with 50% off. ;D
https://www.ebay.com/itm/QMTECH-Xilinx-FPGA-Artix7-Artix-7-Core-Board-XC7A35T-32MB-SDRAM/173165680114?hash=item28517a95f2:g:8cMAAOSw7YlaiUbq
bson:
--- Quote from: rstofer on September 28, 2018, 03:41:10 pm ---I'll bet the learning curve for the Zynq is high and steep. There's a book...
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There's also a course on Udemy for getting started, which seems like a quick and easy way to get started with a MicroZed board. The Linux end is easy to get going on a MicroZed, so it's more about learning to work with Vivado for the platform, creating drivers, etc.
https://www.udemy.com/zynq-training-learn-zynq-7000-soc-device-on-microzed-fpga
and
https://www.udemy.com/learn-fpga-xilinx-vivado-design-suite-training-in-under-1-hour-vhdl
Not sure if they still offer these two for $20, which of course is dirt cheap - I bought the bundle but haven't taken either yet, it's next in line after my current project - so I can't personally say anything about either. (I do suspect both are super basic, but for the money just 'getting to blinky' along with simulations and other touring of the tools would make it well spent money IMO, I can take it from there myself.)
rstofer:
The Linux part of Zynq is probably pretty well known. I was thinking of the complications of dropping in something like FreeRTOS and skipping Linux altogether.
I'll look into those Udemy courses. I am working on 3 at the moment (not working very hard) so maybe I'll add a couple. Thanks for posting those links.
james_s:
Personally I like those little cyclone II boards. It's quite an old fpga, but it's still more than enough for many beginner projects and they are very cheap. I have complete retro computers and 70s arcade games running on those. Old small chip is much faster to compile for too.
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