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Barriers to designing with FPGAs?

psymon

I am interested to obtain people's thoughts on what is stopping them diving into FPGAs. I have my own theories on this subject and will share these as this discussion develops.

 

I look forward to hearing your views,

 

Thanks in advance,

Simon

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  • I have tried before but the student team I was learning from was using proprietary material that was monotone. So no easy access to learning and presented in a boring fashion. that being said, even now there does not seem to be an easy way to learn the ABCs of FPGA, flashing an LED or other seemingly very simple steps that can be eventually put together to make a bigger project.

     

    I would like to see a simpler approach especially considering that so many people today can program in C, JAVA, C++, C# etc. Why can't we talk in terms of what people already know, functions, variables etc. I know they are not the same but if some comparisons can be drawn then atleast I can get a foot in the door, which I could not do before.

     

    Kas

  • in reply to kas.lewis

    Hello Kas,

     

    Thanks for taking the time to reply. How does this sound, if I create a few blog posts which explained with screenshots how to create some simple designs and back these up with a Video showing you visually the same steps.


    If you think there is a better way to serve up this material please let me know and I will look into how feasible it is to implement,


    Simon

  • in reply to psymon

    Hello Simon,

     

    Firstly sorry for the VERY slow response, for some reason I only saw your replay now. As for your proposal I think that would be very interesting and informative way to learn. This would be especially helpful if there was an explanation as to why things are done (code explanation) as opposed to just showing steps. If there was an analagy to C or other more main stream programing as the tutorials went along it may be helpful as well.

     

    Kas

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  • in reply to psymon

    Hello Simon,

     

    Firstly sorry for the VERY slow response, for some reason I only saw your replay now. As for your proposal I think that would be very interesting and informative way to learn. This would be especially helpful if there was an explanation as to why things are done (code explanation) as opposed to just showing steps. If there was an analagy to C or other more main stream programing as the tutorials went along it may be helpful as well.

     

    Kas

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