Re: Promotion for Duane
Newbie or novice doesn't really matter to me. I'm just facinated by this new world. I'm still very much in the realm of not even being close to knowing how much I don't know. At least I know that I don't know how much I don't know.
Re: Promotion for Duane
@Brian: "I say let's promote Duane from FPGA newbie to FPGA novice."
I agree -- we'll just have to wait for the official T-Shirt to come in to make it official -- in the meantime, Duane, feel free to write "FPGA Novice" on your forehead with an indelible pen (grin)
Re: Bring Up
Glad your enjoying it, mine is hopefully in the post..
Hopefully you will have a top level entity for your code which corresponds with the UCF file. For your developments if you use this and assign the entity outputs to 1 or 0 as required then you should avoid floating inputs on the perhiperal devices. That way within your architecture you are free to experiment with your code without having to worry about stressing anything,
Has anyone explained the difference between signal and variables behaviour yet ?
Brian
5/29/2012 1:34:35 AM
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Promotion for Duane
Hi Max,
"When we last left our intrepid FPGA newbie, Duane"
I say let's promote Duane from FPGA newbie to FPGA novice. Since he now has an eval board and some experience, it is warranted :-)
As for myself, I am still a newbie and plan to continue learning through Duane's experiences (and posts... :-)
Which design tools option to use...
@Duane. I checked with the folks at Xilinx and they say you made the right choice with Option 1 - ISE WebPACK
Re: Bring Up
Re those other tools... My head is spinning enough already. :-)
I will be very interested at looking at more tools at some point though. The inside the chip logic analyzer is quite intriguing. It blows my mind and makes perfect sense at the same time. These FPGAs are pretty fun.
Re: Bring Up
Adam - I'm very impressed with this little board so far. But this is really a complete new world for me. It's a bit staggering. I have been blinking some LEDs since this post, but to date only as a modification of one of the sample configurations.
Thanks for the note about floating inputs. That makes sense, although, I'm not sure I have the context in my head yet.
Re: Bring Up
@Adam: If only I was on commission (grin)
Re: Bring Up
@Max, thats twice in two days this site has made my buy something ;)
looking forward to its arrival
Re: Bring Up
@Adam: Re "unused IO connections" -- this is a VERY good point -- thansk for sharing it.
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