My first step into the FPGA world/technologies/fpga-group/b/blog/posts/my-first-step-into-the-fpga-worldAlmost a year ago, I received a very nice surprise from e14. Unfortunately, until now it sat aside, waiting for some love. This is going to change soon! The board The CMOD S7 from Digilent is a very nice little board, fitted with a Spartan 7 FPGA at en-USTelligent Community 12RE: My first step into the FPGA worldhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/fpga-group/b/blog/posts/my-first-step-into-the-fpga-worldTue, 20 Aug 2024 19:33:45 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b8882f5d-f843-48b0-ae33-ff3fe18b7a0fDAB0<p>Nice post.</p> <p>FPGA offers a lot of capability, but with that power comes a lot of knowledge needed to take advantage of it.</p> <p>Keep us informed as you move on to more complex projects.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28273&AppID=19&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: My first step into the FPGA worldhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/fpga-group/b/blog/posts/my-first-step-into-the-fpga-worldSun, 18 Aug 2024 20:58:48 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b8882f5d-f843-48b0-ae33-ff3fe18b7a0fjc20481<p>Nice prize. A neat way to develop further the logic design you did at university and practice with HDL writing.</p> <p><em>&quot;...and still it needs more than 30GB!&quot;</em></p> <p>Back in 1989, this was what you got if you bought the dev system. Six floppy discs (so would be less than 10MB total).</p> <p><img alt=" " src="/resized-image/__size/1280x720/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-b8882f5d-f843-48b0-ae33-ff3fe18b7a0f/IMG_5F00_4073.JPG" /></p> <p>I think that cost several thousand dollars (the small black box, with a connector each end, is a dongle that had to be plugged into the printer port for the software to operate).</p> <p>Bit of trivia: the white tool on the left of the picture is for lifting PLCC packages out of their sockets.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28273&AppID=19&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: My first step into the FPGA worldhttps://community.element14.com/technologies/fpga-group/b/blog/posts/my-first-step-into-the-fpga-worldSun, 18 Aug 2024 12:10:56 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b8882f5d-f843-48b0-ae33-ff3fe18b7a0fdang740<p>Looks like a nice little dev board.&nbsp; Yeah I was floored by the 30GB as well when I installed the software.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=28273&AppID=19&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">