Hello to everyone.
I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos

Hi, Manuel, First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention what is your intention/application. In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your choice. Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials. JTAG interface is one of the download options. Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you will have a rough idea about what shall you do. regards, Jeffsen ----- Original Message ---- From: "mgiannos2000 at yahoo.gr" mgiannos2000 at yahoo.gr> To: cores at opencores.org Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field Hello to everyone.   I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to get done through the JTAG interface of these devices? thank you for any response Manuel Giannos _______________________________________________ http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores

Hi Giannos I think you could find many interesting hint in http://www.fpga4fun.com/. also you could program almost all of the cores which was designed with synthesizable nature on your specific FPGA board, so you need an FPGA developmnet board for start. -- Best regards, Alireza Haghdoost, Student of hardware engineering, On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:16 PM, mgiannos2000 at yahoo.gr> wrote: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.opencores.org/forums.cgi/cores/attachments/20080706/fc87d956/attachment-0001.html

Hi Manuel, I suggest you consider the new Spartan 3A Evaluation kit, that costs only US$ 39,00. Spartan 3A is the spartan series low cost i/o optimised FPGA. Comments: http://www.pldesignline.com/products/207401864 Online Sales:http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl Block Diagram: http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/s3a_evl_block_diagram%20042508.pdf Product Brief: http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/xlx_s3a_evl-pb062308F.pdf Spartan 3E (http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable), that uou´ve cited, is a too a good options, but is more expensive. Tks, Jardel. On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT), xu jianfeng xjf77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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----- Original Message ----- From: xu jianfengxjf77 at y...> To: Date: Sat Jul 5 22:40:29 CEST 2008 Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

Thanks a lot for your reply. What concerns my app here is the deal: i
want to use the hdlc IP & especially the RX part, 8 channels totally.
Finally i want to interface it to a ARM uC. Xilinx & Altera has
something relevant to that. If you could recommend me, as well, a free
cpld or fpga programmer which programs the device containing the IP
implementation I would have the perfect situation (since i would not
have to purchase a dev or eval kit from a certain vendor).
Once again thank you for any further reply
Manos