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This is a great link! Very informative!
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I am sure you are right but its a little ( make that a lot ) too advanced for me right now , but I have bookmarked it for the future
and am always glad of links to stuff that will help me out so allthough I am not able to use this link yet , hopefully one day I will be
I have only started with FPGA for about 2 days now and most of that time has been spent , loading Quartus II V 15 software onto my PC , arranging directories to store books, manuals, Tutorials etc .
And the rest of the time , watching online tutorials , printing out usefull charts ( like the pin assignments for me DE2-115 board )
It doesnt help either that I am now a pensioner and so things dont sink in my brain as quick as they did when younger. Programming has not been something I have done for a living
I am just an electronics enthusiast thats hoping to pick up enough about FPGAs to make it interesting . Its also a way to keep my brain active
My first mistake was downloading every tutorial I could find . only to find some were for Quartus II versions prior to 15 and sometimes they have things no longer found in the newer version or has been replaced
by a better alternative . If I were more knowlegable I am sure I could work out ways around this but being a raw beginner I cant so I have now only kept the tutorials for version 15
second problem was some tutorials were using Verilog and some VHDL . Again if I was younger or more experienced in FPGAs I might have a chance at learning two languages , but for me one is more than enough to cope with and so I settled on VHDL . From what I read this is what most europeans use.
So any help , links , tips tutorials or ideas for something to try to code ( that are suitable for a complete beginner and use VHDL on Quartus II V 15) I would be glad to receive them
I know its only easy but for my first project I am going to try to use the switches and leds on the DE2-115 to simulate simple gates , AND OR NAND NOR XOR etc
if nothing else it will start to teach me the correct syntax for writing entities and architectures and to find my way around the Quartus GUI
Regards
Don
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