Lpc2000

With no experience in CPLD/FPGA design, this discussion (and the 
opencores website) has piqued my curiousity.  Could someone here 
recommend a good way to get started?  Perhaps recommend some basic 
books on concepts design (that also discuss interfacing to mcus).

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" <leon.heller@b...> 
wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Engler" <englere.geo@y...>
> To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:17 AM
> Subject: [lpc2000] Re: Why pick ARM? (Sorry about the open ended-
ness of 
> this question)
> 
> 
> > --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, "rtstofer" <rstofer@p...> wrote:
> >
> >> I have used the Spartan 3 Starter board quite a bit as well as 
the
> >> B5X300 from www.burched.com.  My largest project was to 
implement the
> >> T80 core (Z80) in the B5X300, add a couple of CF drives and run 
CP/M
> >> 2.2.  PS/2 keyboard input and 25x80 text mode for VGA output.
> >
> > This sounds cool! Is this something you might be willing to open 
source?
> >
> > I've been thinking about doing this kind of thing to emulate an 
Apple
> > II using modern chips, but I don't have the expertise to pull it 
off :-(
> 
> Someone might already have done it, I think someone has 
implemented a 6502 
> core. I've got the Digilent Spartan-3 kit, there is a 6809 core 
I've tried 
> on that which runs the Flex operating system. Some students have 
actually 
> done an ARM implementation on an FPGA and made it available via 
the web, but 
> ARM wasn't very happy about it, so it's difficult to get hold of.
> 
> Lots of free cores are available here:
> 
> http://www.opencores.org/
> 
> Leon 
>