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Looks like this is very Xilinx centric list. There are other vendors too. Intel/Altera being the biggest. With Lattice and Microchip probably following. Plus some newcomers I have no experience with.
Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
Looks like this is very Xilinx centric list. There are other vendors too. Intel/Altera being the biggest. With Lattice and Microchip probably following. Plus some newcomers I have no experience with.
One advantage of Altera: parts made on Intel's own fab (so Stratix-10 and Agilex) have reasonable lead times (8-12 weeks). Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
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One advantage of Altera: parts made on Intel's own fab (so Stratix-10 and Agilex) have reasonable lead times (8-12 weeks). Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
Do any of the Intel fabbed FPGAs have a free development IDE? Last I checked, it was limited to older Altera-era FPGAs. I know the pricepoint of the Intel fab FPGAs is outside of even my work projects, but I was surprised to see how few FPGA families were supported by Quartus free edition, and was wondering if I missed something obvious?
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One advantage of Altera: parts made on Intel's own fab (so Stratix-10 and Agilex) have reasonable lead times (8-12 weeks). Lattice is great for extreme low power, I've been using their Crosslink-NX 28nm FPGAs recently.
Do any of the Intel fabbed FPGAs have a free development IDE? Last I checked, it was limited to older Altera-era FPGAs. I know the pricepoint of the Intel fab FPGAs is outside of even my work projects, but I was surprised to see how few FPGA families were supported by Quartus free edition, and was wondering if I missed something obvious?
Intel recently announced their new "Sundance Mesa" series of FPGAs, which are Agilex, and designed as low-end replacements for Cyclone, etc. And they said that they'll be offering Quartus Pro free for Sundance Mesa devices. This really surprised me; generally speaking, in terms of software availability, Xilinx is much more approachable and there are plenty of high-end choices while using Vivado for free.
But beyond that: I just run Quartus in eval mode and rm -rf ~/.altera* once every 30 days and reset it. One of these days I'll get a license for my giant Stratix 10 board when my designs are more finished...
So I have a question. FPGA development really interests me, but I really don’t know where to get started. I’ve done a bit of embedded systems work, mostly with WinCE 5 a decade or so back and some work on video slot machines, but nothing at this level. What would be a good place to start? Most of the things I have looked at seem to assume a slightly higher level of knowledge than I currently have.
Assuming they are, the answer will also give you an initial handhold on the mountain of training and R&D work that you'll need to deal with to make it happen.
So I have a question. FPGA development really interests me, but I really don’t know where to get started. I’ve done a bit of embedded systems work, mostly with WinCE 5 a decade or so back and some work on video slot machines, but nothing at this level. What would be a good place to start? Most of the things I have looked at seem to assume a slightly higher level of knowledge than I currently have.
If you don't have any digital design experience, an oft-recommended course is nand2tetris.
I should say though, that that is the bottom-up approach. It is possible these days to string together a bunch of IPs and not write any HDL, depending on what you want to do. But you will probably be stuck if anything at all goes awry, so I don't recommend the top-down approach.
Am I missing something about the definition of the word "comprehensive"? How can you call a list comprehensive and ignore Altera/Intel? Last I checked they were the biggest FPGA player in town. I have three devkits within arms reach that aren't on this list.
And Lattice