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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

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I also know that MATLAB is pretty pricey software for a small company like ours, but maybe it isn't so bad compared to licensing someone else's IP?

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I'm unsure of the extent of your requirements, but you could look at some opensource alternatives to Matlab/Simulink, such as Octave/Scicos or SciLab. I did a quick search and found Scicos-HDL:

http://scicoshdl.sourceforge.net/projectscreenshots.html

which may or may not help depending on your requirements.

Remember that these projects are done independently of Altera or Xilinx (unlike MATLAB/Simulink) so I'm not very sure how well it would work. Worth giving it a try though, it's free anyway.