Really a great article. I always felt like the amount of resources available for FPGA circuit design is unfortunately low. That said, you can get a lot of horsepower out of an FPGA development kit.
The DE0-Nano[1] is one that I used to do a project[2] very similar to this one. It includes all the parts you'd need besides a video output (you can rig up a 15-bit RGB VGA output pretty easily[3]).
In any case, I think this sort of knowledge is very, very helpful and infinitely applicable to software developers. Great stuff.
The DE0-Nano[1] is one that I used to do a project[2] very similar to this one. It includes all the parts you'd need besides a video output (you can rig up a 15-bit RGB VGA output pretty easily[3]).
In any case, I think this sort of knowledge is very, very helpful and infinitely applicable to software developers. Great stuff.
[1] http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?No=593
[2] https://github.com/SkylerLipthay/project-costanza
[3] http://www.lucidscience.com/pro-vga%20video%20generator-2.as...