EP#94: Al Williams and the Field Programmable Gate Arrays

FPGA Mega Podcast with Al Williams: What is an FPGA? Field-programmable gate array Bunch of logic gates and sea of gates, we tell them what to do Writing hardware description of what it will do - writing requirements language, You’re describing requirements Using VHDL or veralog, syntax is close to the C programming language Why not a microcontroller? Advantage with FPGA = parallel hardware, not a brain with steps and time running out People use FPGAs to get fixed deadline on when processes get finished 100 arduinos on an FPGA - next HackADay Article Mike “Hamster” Field Do you need hardware? No, you can do things via simulation. EDA Playground Can play around for free and don’t have to create login IceStick/IceStorm IceStick is a Lattice FPGA dev board: good starter tool IceStorm is an open source development tool chain HackADay Learning FPGA Links Learning Verilog for FPGAs: The Tools and Building an Adder Learning Verilog for FPGAs: Hardware at Last! YouTube series

 

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