[sdiy] Verilog Uart Done

[James Patchell]

For this little project, I am using the Xilinx Spartan 3 Starter Kit:

http://www.xilinx.com/products/spartan3/s3boards.htm

It costs only $100.  And then I downloaded the Xilinx ISE Webpack, which is 
free.

Now, the starter kit does come with a JTAG cable, however I found it to be 
a little bit unreliable.  Fortunately, I already had the Xilinx JTAG IV 
cable which works so far flawlessly.  However, that will cost another $100 
or so.

Also, take a look at Memec

http://www.memec.com/?cmd=detail&articleid=1724

They are having seminars around the country and you can get deals on both 
development hardware and software.  They are selling a eval kit for doing 
MicroBlaze embedded processors on a Spartan 3S1500 with the XBase ISE and 
EDK for $700 (regular price of about $1900)...learning how to do that sort 
of stuff seems to be rather important at the moment...need to differentiate 
myself from the other engineers I compete with for an ever shrinking number 
of jobs...

http://www.memec.com/?cmd=detail&articleid=2240#kit2

At 10:44 PM 4/17/2005 -0400, David Panseri wrote:
>I agree. At my college they had us use FPGA Advantage for processor
>design in VHDL. Granted, it makes life alot easier but you don't
>really learn much of the language using it. I picked up a book and
>read up on the basics of VHDL on the side. It came in handy the next
>semester when I was doing a project for my embedded systems course and
>needed to write some custom decoders and such.
>
>Question: Where did you get the FPGA board/software you are using?
>
>-Dave Panseri
>
>On 4/17/05, James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
> > Nope, writing it all by hand.  That is the only way to really learn it...
> >
> > At 10:18 PM 4/17/2005 -0400, David Panseri wrote:
> > >That is quite impressive, especial the softcore processor!  Are you
> > >writing all the code by hand or are you using something similar to
> > >FPGA Advantage?
> > >
> > >-Dave Panseri
> > >
> > >On 4/17/05, James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
> > > > I just got the Uart Reciever done now as well.  Both peices of code 
> can be
> > > > found at:
> > > >
> > > > 
> http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/IpArchive/HdlArchive.html#Uart_Softcore
> > > >
> > > >          -Jim
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> >          -Jim
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         -Jim
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