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panchul's insightful posts on FPGA development I decided to try. So I bought an Altera university program board, bought Harris and Harris e-book (yes I know it is free in Russian, but I prefer English), and set everything up.
Boy what a mess! Latest IDE crashes on install with a cryptic message, it is well known and workaround exists.. Then it crashes now and then when working. It all looks like a spaceship controls, but when I try to follow any of "quick start guides" I can't literally follow the steps as some menu items from screenshots do not exist, and when I try to guess it all diverts..
Overall - Verilog seems easier than I thought, but tooling seems awkward. Will keep trying..
panchul's insightful posts on FPGA development I decided to try. So I bought an Altera university program board, bought Harris and Harris e-book (yes I know it is free in Russian, but I prefer English), and set everything up.Boy what a mess! Latest IDE crashes on install with a cryptic message, it is well known and workaround exists.. Then it crashes now and then when working. It all looks like a spaceship controls, but when I try to follow any of "quick start guides" I can't literally follow the steps as some menu items from screenshots do not exist, and when I try to guess it all diverts..
Overall - Verilog seems easier than I thought, but tooling seems awkward. Will keep trying..
