[sdiy] Xilinx 3E board comments

[jhaible at debitel.net]

> What you want to do you can do at a much cheaper board infact.

I know. I remember Gene Stopp bringing up the idea of the Obie 
logic put into a single FPGA - *many* years ago.

> One of the things to learn tought is really the workflow, to design propper
> testbenches, simulate that, then go to synthesis and check the outcome of
> that
> before hitting the board. Back in the ASIC/full-custom days it was much more
> important than FPGA requires, but it is a good way of doing things never the
> less.

At work, I have a dozend FPGA and ASIC designers sitting next to me.
Their tools, and workflow, are intimidating. (But I see that the analogue part 
of our mixed signal ASICs looks intimidating to them as well.)

Who knows what I'll do with this board.

But I really hope in time there will be programs available for this, just like 
for that Chameleon thing. I'll gladly just be a user then, not a developer.

In fact, with all the traffic on synth-diy, I expect there to be many 
interesting projects to choose from, in the near future.

When all these mails with FPGA in the topic line were coming up, I was torn 
between making a killfile, or buy a board myself. I decided on the latter, and 
still won't turn into a programmer. I hope. :D

JH.


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