Re: Carte Blanche Atto (CB for the IIc)

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"a2retro" <a2retrosystems@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 29, 7:46 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/28/2011 05:37 PM, Charlie wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> > Anyway, if I can help you get started just ask. Either email me or 
> > better
> > yet ask here because I'm sure others will join in.
>
> Thanks for the kind offer, Charlie. I will try to screw up my courage to 
> dive
> into this again. I got so frustrated last time around that I put all the
> pieces and docs away, so it will take a bit to get everything out, 
> organized
> and ready for more work.
>
> I still think there's a burning need for a raw beginners project that
> hand-holds the user all the way through - including basic negotiation of 
> the
> Xilinx ISE dialogs. Maybe I'm asking for too much, so I'll stop before I
> sound like I'm whining :-).
>
> One of my hopes was to synthesize a 6809 coprocessor board with the 
> gen-u-ine
> CPU in the ASIC adapter. Alex had suggested this early on as a good 
> candidate
> for schematic capture based synthesis. Not sure if he ever did it or not.
>
> Steve

For anyone looking for beginner stuff, here are some other resources
for general FPGA programming information

1) http://www.digilentinc.com/classroom/realdigital/
2) http://www.digilentinc.com/nav1index.cfm?NavTop=95&DisplayBox=false
(Tutorials and VHDL section @ the bottom of the page)
3) PAID($18) - http://www.burched.com/index.php

> -------------------------

Thanks, I'll take a look at the digilent stuff.

Charlie