Board and VHDL

[Amit]

Hello group,

I'm new to VHDL and still learning the coding however, I like to know
what board I should buy to start doing some programming? any online
resource?

any advice will be appreciated greatly.

Regards,
Amit

 

[Mark McDougall]

I'm new to VHDL and still learning the coding however, I like to know
what board I should buy to start doing some programming? any online
resource?

any advice will be appreciated greatly.

Short answer: the most expensive you can afford.

Long answer: depends on what you plan to do with it. Audio? Video? How
much memory would you like? SDRAM? SRAM? Flash? Need CF/SD/MMC?
Interface options? And which FPGA vendor?

Regards,

 

[Amit]

Short answer: the most expensive you can afford.

Long answer: depends on what you plan to do with it. Audio? Video? How
much memory would you like? SDRAM? SRAM? Flash? Need CF/SD/MMC?
Interface options? And which FPGA vendor?

Regards,

--
Mark McDougall, Engineer
Virtual Logic Pty Ltd, <http://www.vl.com.au>
21-25 King St, Rockdale, 2216
Ph: +612-9599-3255 Fax: +612-9599-3266

I'm new to this field but rather doing the basic projects (school) and
then more advance ones. I don't know exactly what I need but something
that works for the majority of projects.

Thanks for you help.

Regards,
Amit

 

[Mark McDougall]

I'm new to this field but rather doing the basic projects (school)
and then more advance ones. I don't know exactly what I need but
something that works for the majority of projects.

The "majority of projects"??? Are you kidding?

In that case you might want to start with a small piece of fairy-cake
and extrapolate from there...

But seriously, you might want to check out the Birch-Ed boards - they
are somewhat expandable.
<http://www.burched.com/>

Probably more expensive, but still expandable, is the NanoBoard...
<http://www.altium.com/Products/NanoBoard/NanoBoardNB2/>

Regards,

 

[David M. Palmer]

Short answer: the most expensive you can afford.

Long answer: depends on what you plan to do with it. Audio? Video? How
much memory would you like? SDRAM? SRAM? Flash? Need CF/SD/MMC?
Interface options? And which FPGA vendor?

Another possible short answer:
The cheapest one that will get you started. Then when you want to go
beyond its capabilities in some direction, buy a board that supports
that. (See the previous long answer.)

A $30 board that doesn't even have blinkenlights may not be enough to
get you started,
http://www.knjn.com/ShopBoards_RS232.html
but something in the $100-$150 range has a lot of play value for
figuring out what you want to do for a big project
http://www.digilentinc.com/
(if you are a student check out what you can get for $300
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Nav1=Products&Nav2=Progra
mmable&Prod=XUPV2P )

Once you have a little experience with that, you can decide what you
need in a board for what you decide to make your big project. Since it
is only 10% or so of what you will be spending it is a good investment.