Hi Don't forget to toss RAM, Flash, EEPROM, brown out detection, and a clock oscillator on your board. You get all that stuff built in on a sub $5 / 100 Mhz micro, but not on a FPGA. I'm not saying you can't take care of all that on a board, just that you need to plan ahead.
Bob On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Attila Kinali <att...@kinali.ch> wrote: > >> 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. > > This is beginning to change. I think I'm going to try learning. The > numbers are just to good, 250,000 logic gates that run at 100Mhz all > on an easy to interface PCB with software for $50. > > And the best part is you can re-program it up after to build > something. So you only need to buy one FPGA board. They get > re-programmed on every power cycle. and (2) not waiting to order > parts, you can try an idea right away. > > The Up is easier to use but always you end up with a bunch of other > ICs in the design. the FPGA should let you do most of hat those ICs > do and whatever the uP can do. > > For $50 I'll learn something, even if it is "These things are not as > useful as I thought." > > And I agre with you about the CPU cores. Just use them. My guess is > that most FPGA applications have a uP core inside. > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.