Posted on 12-12-2007 under electronics
I just started using my newest toy. The Xilinx Spartan 3A Starter Kit. Finally my very own FPGA.
“Using” would be too much of an exaggeration at this point though. More like “plugged it in and looked at the demo apps”. The demos themselves are pretty cool. Considering the only other exposure I have had in embedded systems is 8-bit RISC controllers, hearing recorded voices speak in about twenty different languages on a dev board is truly awesome. I haven’t tried the VGA demo yet, but it promises to be amazing (scrolling graphics, animation and stuff).
Before my drool renders my keyboard nigh unusable, and maybe shorts the board, I’m gonna sign off.