Hi All, I regularly teach a sophomore/junior level course on digital circuits. I've recently started paying attention to PLD/FPGA hardware, particularly Actel's bargain-basement igloo-nano development board, http://www.actel.com/products/hardware/devkits_boards/igloonano_starter.aspx, which is offered at a price that my students could conceivably buy for the course.
I'd like to spend some time talking about FPGA's but have run into two small problems - asking you-all seems like the easiest solution: - What's your favorite text that serves as a technical introduction to FPGA's? (I'm thinking of something parallel to Essick's "Introduction to LabVIEW") My main text for the course is Floyd's "Digital Fundametals" which I think is mediocre overall. - What's your favorite class project involving FPGA programming? The obvios targets for a project right now seem like they should feature VHDL (obviously), and tend towards the architectural "sweet-spot" of FPGA computation, which to me seems like massively parallel computation of something. I've been thinking about a cartoon of the features in a digital camera, eg zoom in on an image (bitmap), rotate an image, etc. If you have something built that you're willing to share I'd be most grateful. I hope this isn't too off-topic. I didn't think of FPGA's in the same terms as beowulfs until I started reading the amazon reviews for http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471687839/ref=oss_product Nathan Moore _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
