Learning FPGA

Does anyone know of any good learning resources about how to start learning FPGA? I've been a software engineer for several years and the FPGA world is quite new to me. I'm trying to implement RMII but have been struggling a lot. I purchased a logic analyzer but I don't know what I'm looking at. I need something that will tell me how to properly understand and read datasheets, know how to debug signals, how to understand what VHDL is good and what is bad. How to read RTL generations..Etc

I'm starting from the beginning. Any resources or materials are greatly appreciated.

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fpgaguru 6 hours ago in reply to saramic +1

Retired engineer with 35 years of FPGA design experience here, 24 of them at Xilinx/AMD. Tooting my own horn, you may want to take a look at the Element14 blog "The Art of FPGA Design" , quite old now…

saramic 1 day ago
I have no expertise in this area, but from my research I am planning (in some future) to follow this path:

I have this book
Getting Started with FPGAs
Digital Circuit Design, Verilog, and VHDL for Beginners
by Russell Merrick
September 2023, 320 pp.
ISBN-13:
9781718502949

The author recommends his board for getting started
The Go Board -> https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ ~$70
The Best FPGA Development Board For Beginners

Quick overview by the author
My book Getting Started with FPGAs is NOW AVAILABLE! - nandland
https://youtu.be/4UpMB9kNt0s

the code
https://github.com/nandland/getting-started-with-fpgas

As I mentioned - I have 0 experience but this looks like the learning path I would take to get a good understanding - hope that helps
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fpgaguru 6 hours ago in reply to saramic

Retired engineer with 35 years of FPGA design experience here, 24 of them at Xilinx/AMD. Tooting my own horn, you may want to take a look at the Element14 blog "The Art of FPGA Design", quite old now but still very relevant. In particular Post 3 has a link to the book I used to learn VHDL in 1995, Peter Ashenden's "The VHDL Cookbook"

What I really want to point out is that "learning FPGA", or "learning VHDL" or Verilog or whatever should not be a goal in itself, it's like saying "I need to learn to use a hammer", what you should aim for is "I want to learn how to build a house". What you really want is to learn digital hardware design, especially if you come from a software engineering background. VHDL is just another programming language and FPGA design is the ability to use a tool like Vivado or Vitis, how to use these tools and skills is the actual challenge.
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