Re: [oc] How To get started ?

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>]

Hi

my recommendation would be to choose a core with a 
bit of a testbench,  get a simulator, and simulate and 
understand the core.

enhance the testbench, add more self checking

then modify the core + tb together to add more 
features.

then consider putting it into a fpga.

choose something here that is interesting and 
reasonably obvservable without too much specialist 
test equipment.
you are interested in the core, not the items 
exercising it. 

Xilinx and altera both have reasonable synthesis 
environments freely available at the lower end.
I've been playing with icarus verilog on linux,
its not as fast and the syntax error reporting 
messages are not as good  as verilogxl - say, 
but its 100% cheaper.

john
 





On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:09:07AM -0800, Matts Kivik wrote:
>  I am interested in getting started with opencores, and think the first step would be to get one of the available cores up and running on an FPGA and test it out.
> 
> What is required, should I start with the micro fpga board ? 
> What kind of PC software is needed, is it available for free ?
> 
> 
> Perhaps someone would like to write a getting-started-HOWTO ?
> 
> I am an electronics master engineer, with hardware knowledge, but no experience of FPGAs and IP cores.
> 
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