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14 years ago

Beginner project question!: DE0 Nano+temp sensor+save to file

Hi all- I am an experimental physicist, and have very limited programming experience (mostly very high level things like matlab). I purchased a DE0 Nano board because I very much want to learn...
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14 years ago

FPGA are great for doing custom hardware like custom CPU, DSP, audio/video processing, etc..

Things like record temperature for x amount of time, and save the data to a csv file is a 2$ MCU stuff not a 40$ FPGA stuff

By the way you can do it with soft-cpu like NIOS II

To start some logic block like multiplexer, FSM, etc.. with VHDL o Verilog are great to learn FPGA

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