Verilog is less-painful than VHDL for coding. In my dictionary, VHDL = *Verbose* Hardware Description Language....
Initially I used FPGAs to replace random logic entirely. They also have the advantage of having flexible pinouts, so you can often save a lot of PCB routing headaches by swapping pins around. Lately, I've needed high-speed control and a microcontroller just isn't up-to-snuff in all cases. Where I'm at now is RaspberryPi + FPGA: It gives me all the goodness of the linux ecosystem (tons of software & apps), WiFi networking, reprogrammability at the hardware and software level, and high-speed logic. Would be nice if the RasPi could reprogram the FPGA (ugghhh...another project I want to do) Lastly, I've been a chip designer for more than 30 years, and my current employer doesn't let me do "real design work" anymore, so that's why I design nixie clocks from scratch. I did some evaluation of Arduino and MSP432, but stopped all work when the $10 RasPiZeroW came out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/3c7fa9aa-eb2d-4bca-ba68-0c4e89540fb4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
