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episode 94: EP#94: Al Williams and the Field Programmable Gate Arrays
- FPGA Mega Podcast with Al Williams:
- What is an FPGA?
- Field-programmable gate array
- Bunch of logic gates and sea of gates, we tell them what to do
- Writing hardware description of what it will do - writing requirements language, You’re describing requirements
- Using VHDL or veralog, syntax is close to the C programming language
- Why not a microcontroller?
- Advantage with FPGA = parallel hardware, not a brain with steps and time running out
- People use FPGAs to get fixed deadline on when processes get finished
- 100 arduinos on an FPGA - next HackADay Article
- Mike “Hamster” Field
- Do you need hardware?
- No, you can do things via simulation.
- EDA Playground
- Can play around for free and don’t have to create login
- IceStick/IceStorm
- IceStick is a Lattice FPGA dev board: good starter tool
- IceStorm is an open source development tool chain
- HackADay Learning FPGA Links
- Learning Verilog for FPGAs: The Tools and Building an Adder
- Learning Verilog for FPGAs: Hardware at Last!
- YouTube series
- What is an FPGA?
Tags: 100 Arduinos, Al Williams, EDA Playground, electronics podcast, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGA, IceStick, IceStorm, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Podcast