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maradyddDear LJ Genie,
Thanks for all the great advice about accelerometers and uCs! I've now got a line on a local electronics supplier (walking distance, for long values of walking) and will be visiting there soon. Now for a research question -- I don't think I'll be following up on this anytime soon, but it'll help to have my eyes open.
What's a good, affordable, entry-level FPGA for a reasonably competent programmer who can already build arbitrary logic gates from transistors, but doesn't have a lot of other fundamentals down yet? (I do not, for instance, have all that great of a grasp of the intricacies involved in CPU design -- tradeoffs, pitfalls, that kind of thing. Okay, any grasp, really. But I'd like to learn, and have some suitably horrifying ideas about defining something that resembles a fitness function for a processor and doing awful, awful things with Verilog and code generation...)
Alternately, is there a software-based FPGA simulator/emulator that's worth a damn?
Thanks for all the great advice about accelerometers and uCs! I've now got a line on a local electronics supplier (walking distance, for long values of walking) and will be visiting there soon. Now for a research question -- I don't think I'll be following up on this anytime soon, but it'll help to have my eyes open.
What's a good, affordable, entry-level FPGA for a reasonably competent programmer who can already build arbitrary logic gates from transistors, but doesn't have a lot of other fundamentals down yet? (I do not, for instance, have all that great of a grasp of the intricacies involved in CPU design -- tradeoffs, pitfalls, that kind of thing. Okay, any grasp, really. But I'd like to learn, and have some suitably horrifying ideas about defining something that resembles a fitness function for a processor and doing awful, awful things with Verilog and code generation...)
Alternately, is there a software-based FPGA simulator/emulator that's worth a damn?