FPGA

Stuff about VHDL

See VHDL

Xilinx

• Website: http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/
• Spartan 3a Starter Board: SPARTAN-3E, BASYS2, FPGA, EVAL BOARD (Board Guide) Spartan 3a user guide, Data Sheet
• Free edition of software: ISE WebPACK

#Installing libXm.so.3:
sudo apt-get install libmotif3

#Set the env variables:
INSTALL_DIR=/opt
. $INSTALL_DIR/Xilinx/14.4/ISE_DS/settings32.sh
DISPLAY=:0

#starting the main app:
$INSTALL_DIR/Xilinx/14.4/ISE_DS/ISE/bin/lin/ise

Lattice

• Lattice Website

Altera

• Altera Website
• Cyclone III datasheet (finally one I can somewhat understand)
• Free medium density FPGA Quartus II Web Edition Software (4GB..., linux link)

cd /tmp
wget -O 12.1sp1_243_quartus_free_linux.tar.gz "http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/12.1sp1/243/standalone/12.1sp1_243_quartus_free_linux.tar.gz?None&fileExt=.gz"
cd ~
tar -xvzf 12.1sp1_243_quartus_free_linux.tar.gz
cd 12.1sp1_243_quartus_free_linux
TARGET=/opt/altera12.1sp1/
altera_installer/bin/altera_installer_cmd --all --target=$TARGET --source `pwd`
altera_installer/bin/altera_installer_cmd --install=devices --target=$TARGET --source `pwd` --web
#start it up:
/opt/altera12.1sp1/quartus/bin/quartus

• starter kit, User Guide