FPGA programming!

[Palm]

I thought I´d start a thread on this subject as FPGA is the heart of the MiniMig which is very popular these days. However, the community is full of talented people who wants to contribute and have the guts to do it, but just needs some guidence in how these things work. Since I am one of them, I will start off with my newbie questions hoping that it will elevate my knowledge a notch


The small amount of "FPGA guys" in this forums: Can you elighten the rest of us with information in order to push us into the right direction so we can understand more about FPGA development and one day create a "hello world"-core on our minimigs ?

I am thinking out things like:

* Where to get the best information for self-teaching (books, forums online, teaching videos online, etc.)
* Which program to download (links if you have them) to start experimenting
* What is needed additionally to the minimig board to get going with development/experimenting


I think many guys really would like to contribute somehow, but lacks the knowledge. As Amiga communities kicks ass, and its users as very dedicated, it would be awesome to hear from the hardcore FPGA experts out there.


Regs
Espen

[Palm]

Great. Thanks for all the tips. Hopefully, more would find this interesting and start experimenting with the MiniMig (or their kits if they get one).

Regs
Espen

[Palm]

www.fpga4fun.com was bullesye. Very good intro to FPGA and it had all I needed to get me going.

So my next quest is to create a binary to test on the minimig. I guess a easy program to test is to toggle some io pins high and low and look at them using a logic probe...just to see if things work

Anyone else who might have a goode idea for a nice newbie testprogram to try to make ?

[Palm]

Lucky man, who can work with this and also get training at work. Ok, I will see if I can build a core which does some testpatterns. Would be a nice place to start, indeed.

Thankx.


Espen