Lpc2000

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From: "bell_c_d" <bell_c_d@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: [lpc2000] Re: Why pick ARM? (Sorry about the open ended-ness of 
this question)


> 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).

A good 'cookbook' is:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/book/bookse.htm

although it is somewhat out of date in terms of the hardware.

You really need a suitable Altera board to go with it, I designed my own 
using an Altera Flex 10K10 chip. Although it is rather small, it is possible 
to get most of the designs in the book into it.

The Xilinx/Digilent Spartan-3 Starter Kit is about the best value tutorial 
system you can get at $99. You could just get one of those and play with it, 
using VHDL or Verilog. The learning curve is quite steep, but it's a lot of 
fun.

Leon 

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