FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS toolchain

Re:FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS ... by alfiedotwtf on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:30PM (#25723028)

What's the best place to start learning about FPGAs? I've been wanting to dip my toes in, but not sure where to begin.

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Re:FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS ... by victor82 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:41PM (#25723135)

If you are already familiar with Python I could recommend start with this tutorial: https://github.com/RobertBaruch/nmigen-tutorial

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Re:FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS ... by vrangan on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:04PM (#25723864)

Also, icestudio (https://icestudio.io/) is a gentle way to get introduced with minimal knowledge to the verilog side of things. As others have posted, the learning curve for HW can be steep and development tools tend to be in the dark ages as compared to those for SW development. eg. you will spend a lot of time hitting your head on a wall with debugging HW if you arent careful to follow a process of linting and simulating your design well before going to HW.

nMigen is highly recommended.

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Re:FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS ... by alfiedotwtf on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:11AM (#25724832)

Excellent. Thanks to you both!

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Re:FPGA dev board that's cheap, simple and supported by OSS ... by dancek on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:34AM (#25727087)

While it's not about FPGAs, I got started by working through https://www.nand2tetris.org/ . After that I bought an UPduino v2 and started hacking. Of course working on a fantasy CPU and a real FPGA are completely different, but the mindset of how hardware works vs. how software works is very valuable.

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