{"id":2177,"date":"2018-09-13T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2018-09-13T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:09:35","slug":"just-ordered-an-fpga-breakout-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/09\/13\/just-ordered-an-fpga-breakout-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Just ordered an FPGA breakout board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reading a book on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VHDL\">VHDL<\/a> (I&#8217;ve had some contact, but long ago and somewhat tangential) last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just ordered a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/products\/11953\">Mojo v3 FPGA Development Board<\/a>\u00a0 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkfun.com\/\">SparkFun<\/a> so that I can do some more tangible experimentation with soft hardware \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that Xilinx has a new version of their <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xilinx.com\/t5\/Xcell-Daily-Blog-Archived\/Spartan-6-development-Windows-10-Upgrade-to-ISE-14-7-for-Spartan\/ba-p\/780272\">toolchain<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xilinx.com\/products\/silicon-devices\/fpga\/spartan-6.html\">Spartan 6<\/a> FPGA that is on this board that works on windows 10. I&#8217;ll have to download the software and follow their instructions tonight or tomorrow night. I don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to play with a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA and refresh my VHDL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,2,22,5,53],"tags":[55,54,56],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-projects","category-sandbox","category-thoughts","category-vhdl","tag-fpga","tag-vhdl","tag-xilinx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-z7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}