As someone who is currently tinkering with a design in an fpga I had to smile at that statement. :-)
If you want the "edit + compile", then you may want to rethink that part. There are plenty of microcontrollers out there that are significantly easier to get going. And yes, you can do things faster in an fpga. As in better timing granularity compared to a micro. But unless you are already well versed in fpga tinkering count on the fpga route being WAY more expensive (time wise) than a microcontroller implementation. But if you want to use the complex thingy purely for kicks, noone's stopping you of course. :P regards, Fred ________________________________ From: Michael Sokolov <msoko...@ivan.harhan.org> To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] GPSDO for my rubber duckie Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why such complex a system when you don't need it? An FPGA??? Fixing a logic mistake in an FPGA involves editing a Verilog source file and recompiling; fixing a logic mistake in discrete logic involves a board respin. I much prefer editing ASCII text source files and recompiling over respinning PCBs. MS _______________________________________________ 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.
