How/where to get started?

Hi Skravats,

Thanks for your pointers, I knew about the rocketboard site as well as the tutorial files.

However to be honest, on the softwrae side Altera's Soc's look a bit dark - it is hardly possible to get started without beeing familiar with the whole Altera toolchain bottom-up.

I finally learned about Xillinux on the rocketboard wiki which allowed me to get started quickly - as they provide an intuitive interface between HPS and FPGA which is well documented.

However I only use their "lite"-version which is fine for testing my VHDL code, as their fifo/dma interface is at leats 10k$ per seat.

So to sum it up, although I prefer Altera's toolchain when working with pure FPGA designs, the Soc experience so far was an disappointment.

From what I've seen except a few quickly compiled samples, there is no really useful documentation or getting started tutorials.

No wonder xilinx gets all the buzz with zynq, although the device is pretty much compareable to altera`s offerigs ;)

Regards