Hi, I can recommend SpartanII and Spartan3. These chips are quite cheap and powerful. A development system under Linux is available since a few months. It's free. I recommend to set kate as an external editor, because it's so much better to work with. At the moment I prefer SpartanII because they only need 2 different supply voltages. Spartan3 needs 3, which leads to a much more complex design. Because you are a beginner you should buy a starter kit. If you plan to create complex designs you REALLY should learn VHDL. VHDL programming is possible (and very comfortable) with the IDE from Xilinx.
Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list