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14 years ago

Need a crash course in FPGAs

I just, uh, "discovered" FPGAs about a week ago and from what I've learned so far, they seem perfectly suited for vector control of an induction motor, compared to running a 100k lines of C code thro...
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14 years ago

Easiest start would be to get a development board like the DE2

http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de2/unv-de2-board.html

and download Quartus II

Then read a book or watch the training videos

http://www.altera.com/education/training/trn-index.jsp

As for vector control of induction motors. I have read several papers written by academics on the topic.

It will take a few weeks/days to get aquainted with the language as it is a hardware description language whereas you are describing the logic you need for a certain design.