Programming FPGAs: Papilio Pro

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Resources and Going Further

I urge you to continue to learn about FPGAs by searching the web and reading as much as possible on it. FPGAs are not the easiest thing to learn, but provide quite a bit of power and functionality that is always cool to do. Understanding the power of FPGAs will take a fair bit of time and energy. They are extremely complex, extremely powerful, and most of the things you utilize today (mainly the Internet) run on these amazing little chips.

The best advice I can give out to learning FPGAs is to find a project that will utilize one, and do it.

A few suggested places to visit to get a better understanding are:

  • Asic-World - Great place to learn HDL, Scripting, and a variety of items on FPGAs and digital logic
  • FPGA4Fun - A site for non-novices, but provides great tutorials on projects and IP as well as general FPGA information.
  • Hamster Works - A novice-turned-expert in the field of FPGAs and embedded electronics. He wrote an FPGA book for novices! He also provides great insight into projects and tutorials.
  • Any and all digital logic textbooks. They are undervalued in this world, so if you can pick up one or two, keep them forever. They are worth their weight in gold.