Well, thanks for swallowing carriage returns between lines that begin with "-". Maybe an elementary book on C programming would be a better starting point for whoever wrote this forum software.
Re:FPGAs for fun & hacking
by prodigal_erik on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @03:06AM
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http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Blank lines separate paragraphs. Leading hyphens don't do anything. And asking Paul Graham to rewrite a web forum in C is like sending Lance Armstrong to Paris on a unicycle.
That would be this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham
Out of several (expensive) books I do have, these are the ones that've been most helpful:
- Verilog HDL Synthesis by Bhasker - FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples by Pong P. Chu - Advanced FPGA Design by Kilts - The two "Learning By Example using Verilog" books by Richard Haskell (these are actually written specifically for use with the Digilent Nexys2 board I mentioned in an earlier post)
Many of the others are impractical, academic junk that waste your time with things like gate-level design, Karnaugh maps and the like that are handled by the synthesis tool nowadays. Unless you are writing a synthesis tool you don't need 75% of what's in most HDL textbooks.