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Just ordered an FPGA breakout board

I was reading a book on VHDL (I’ve had some contact, but long ago and somewhat tangential) last night.

I just ordered a Mojo v3 FPGA Development Board  from SparkFun so that I can do some more tangible experimentation with soft hardware 🙂 

It appears that Xilinx has a new version of their toolchain for the Spartan 6 FPGA that is on this board that works on windows 10. I’ll have to download the software and follow their instructions tonight or tomorrow night. I don’t have any specific project plans related to the board at the moment but for $75.00 or so it presents a great opportunity to play with VHDL on a real target.

I’ve been running into a few cases lately where it would be helpful to be better versed in VHDL and for home projects I can see many places where programmable logic would be superior to an embedded controller.