Hi,
I am after a review of Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA board and now I am participating a the Path to Programmable training project. I would like to a give a Xilinx Arty S7 board from roadtest review for a person whose is interested to make a roadtest, project or would like to learn FPGA based this board. Please let me know in comments if you are interested.
I've spent some time this morning looking at the PSOC programmable logic in the light of several comments in E14 suggesting it as a low cost route into learning about FPGA.
My conclusion is that it…
I did a lot of research into the PSoC 5 when it first came out. I was excited to see that almost all of configuration registers were documented, so that it would be possible to write my own design tools…
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I did a lot of research into the PSoC 5 when it first came out. I was excited to see that almost all of configuration registers were documented, so that it would be possible to write my own design tools. I was then disappointed to find out that the routing registers were not documented, so you're pretty much limited to using PSoC Creator which requires using a Windows machine. Ah well.
I did see that PSoC 5 (and 4) are really quite marvellous chips, but I agree with Michael that they're really not FPGAs. A PSoC 5 is like having a big breadboard with a bunch of PLAs, a bunch of bit-slice ALUs (actually byte-slice), analog components, and a reasonably powerful CPU well-integrated with the other devices, all smashed into a tiny chip. It's a nifty device for playing with lots of different technologies provided that you're willing to tolerate Windows.
The PLAs are reasonably powerful, but 48 PLAs is not the same as a proper FPGA with thousands of logic elements. PLAs make dandy "glue logic", but you'll soon run out if doing a serious logic function.
I still recommend iCE40 as a great starting FPGA and also as a solution when you need a relatively small FPGA. You can get 1K gate parts in QFN, VQFP and TQFP packages.
To David Murphy: I suggest downloading both the iCE40 data sheet and the PSoC 5LP architectural reference manual. Read each one for one hour and see how far you get 
Thats very generous of you kk99 .
I have been since long trying to get my hands on an FPGA based board to learn FPGA programming. This looks like a very good opportunity.
If you are still interested in giveaway I would be very interested to learn 
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Thanks again.
Regards,
GS Gill
