On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:27:27 -0500 paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FPGAs are generally intended for the mass market with a steep learning > curve. Though they can be pressed into whats of interest to time-nuts it > simply seems like a overly complicated technology and method for a non-mass > market solution. Actually, they are not. In the mass market, you dont want to use FPGAs due to their high cost. As soon as you produce more then 10k pieces (in total) you start thinking about doing an ASIC. And the learning curve isn't any more steep than for learning how to work with a uC. It's just that most people know already a bit of programming which makes it far easier to learn enough C to do something with a uC. At the same time, programming experience makes it more difficult to learn VHDL/Verilog, because people think it works like a programming language which it definitly does not. But yes, you are right. An FPGA is probably not the right thing. Not because it is more difficult, but rather because there are less tools and less documentation available. Hence making it more difficult for the hobbyist to handle FPGAs than uCs. Attila Kinali -- The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything until you've saved up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments and then you dump them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap -- Tirin, The Dispossessed, U. Le Guin _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.