Please bear in mind that a number of these boards don't have an ethernet connector. I bought the DE-1 and it's a great board apart from that, but ageing as suggested. However, the board you buy must depend on how close a fit you need to the bitstreams available or how competent you think you are/might be with the tools in reconfiguring for a different target board.
M. On 23 October 2015 at 09:27, Dave Wade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > And if you are going to learn an FPGA development language look at > > > SystemVerilog/Verilog, OpenCL, or VHDL. Certainly not AHDL. It was bad > > > even when it was new. It does not get better with age. > > > > I'll go back to schematic entry before I touch them. > > They FUCK! > > Please keep profanity off the list. > > You can continue to use AHDL but just like any lower level language, its > proprietary to the Altera tool chain, may need work to move between chip > families, and means you will have to do almost all the work yourself. There > is very little AHDL code available for download. So you are cutting > yourself off from the rest of the world where the formally standardized > tools VHDL and Verilog have largely taken over from proprietary languages > like AHDL. > > I was going to say that there is no "parameter passing" in VHDL. You > define an entity and then connect it to a higher level entity, but looking > in the help this isn't true. I also struggled with this when I was building > a "Baby Baby" as I wanted to have different types of output device and have > conditional synthesis but this does not appear to be supported. > > > > > > Don > > > > > > > Dave Wade > G4UGM > >
