Designing field-programmable gate arrays
Conclusion
I have been saying since 2011 that it's time to bring FPGA design to the masses, and you can find on my blog plenty of posts that make that argument [10], both at the personal and at the educational and political levels. In 2023, borrowing that famous proverb about planting trees, I can only add that the best moment to learn FPGAs was 20 years ago, and the second best moment is now. Study this and the next article, give FPGA design a try, and let me know how it goes!
Infos
- NAND gate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAND_gate
- Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- Nios for Altera: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/roducts/details/fpga/nios-processor.html
- MicroBlaze: http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/microblaze.html
- PetaLinux: https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/968413
- Intel FPGA Software Development Center: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/collections/products/fpga/software/downloads.html
- Vivado on Linux: http://www.xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/downloadNav/vivado-design-tools.html
- Xilinx Knowledge Base: https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/76585
- Importance of FPGAs: https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/fpga/
The Author
Marco Fioretti (http://mfioretti.substack.com) is a freelance author, trainer, and researcher based in Rome, Italy, who has been working with Free/Open Source software since 1995 and on open digital standards since 2005. Marco also is a Board Member of the Free Knowledge Institute (http://freeknowledge.eu).
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