Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Learn VHDL


There is a VHDL book on-line:
http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl/doc/cookbook/VHDL-Cookbook.pdf
My advice, as with any language, is to start hacking it. What I would do is get AvNet's Spartan 3A dev kit:
http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/aes_sp3a_eval400_avnet.htm
Why? It's got all you need, and it's only $50. Next, I would read the tutorial for the kit (free with registration on AvNet). This will walk you though the structure of a basic VHDL program. Then, I would extend that to do something need, using the book and the web as a reference as necessary.