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9 years ago

Starting with FPGA boards

Hi everyone!! My name is Dror, i am an electronic engineer student (final year) and i work at a company as a hardware/software developer. I learned some FPGA in school but just the basics and...
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9 years ago

Or you might want to investigate MathWorks (the MATLAB/SIMULINK) folks and their HDL-CODER (google: mathworks hdl coder).

You can express your algorithms at a high level in MATLAB/SIMULINK, and then generate HDL code (verilog or VHDL) for the design.

If you are a software / control systems person, and not a hardware FPGA designer, this might be a good way to go.

The 'student' pricing is very reasonable for your explorations as a 'student', but a full commercial license for the tools is $$$$ (like Quartus Lite vs full license).

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with MathWorks, just familiar with their products.