Re: [myhdl-list] Introduction and FPGA Camp Booth Proposal

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 03/29/2011 10:07 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
> First let me introduce myself, I am a hard core Python and Zope
> developer recently interested in FPGA.s
> I know a lot about semiconductor manufacturing, but very little about
> digital electonics.  This MyHDL stuff looks hugely interesting, but hard
> to wrap my head around.

To avoid disappointments, it may be wise to start by
reading an introductory text to digital electronics
and synthesis first. Starting with MyHDL before this
is probably not the right approach, because it assumes
implicit knowledge, especially about limitations :-)
(Until someone writes the book "Introduction to
digital design using MyHDL" of course :-))

> My core observation is that modern CPU's average 10 instructions per
> second with 2 billion transistors.  Surely that is hugely inefficient,
> and we can do better.
>
> On to the conference.  Here is an upcoming free conference.  Kind of an
> open source camp.  Maybe we could have a free booth there.
>
> http://www.fpgacentral.com/fpgacamp
>
> What does everyone think?  Anyone interested?
>


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