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11 years ago

How to get started with FPGA: Development tools?

Hi all, This is for Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I want to get started with FPGA design so I thought I'll try the new MAX10 FPGA but every time I start reading FPGA stuff at Altera, I'm overwhelmed wi...
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11 years ago

Hi,

I worked on a course at Altera called "How to Become an FPGA Designer in 4 Hours". It doesn't cover NIOS/Eclipse but it does go through setting up a project, adding constraints, compiling and setting up a signal tap debug environment. Once you are comfortable at that level, proceed to one of our NIOS or Qsys classes. See: http://www.altera.com/education/training/courses/odswbecome . Cheers Larry