Ann: New FPGA beginner's Video guide

Hi all,

I have just released a new online Video guide called "The BurchED Getting Started with Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide"

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It is an easy step-by-step guide for FPGA beginners. I go all the way through from "What is an FPGA?" right up to compiling designs and downloading to your FPGA board.

You can log in to the site whenever you want and watch the videos, including any additional ones that I will put up over time.

There's a Free Membership area where you can watch some videos for free.

  • FPGAs for Beginners - the Top 6 Questions answered

  • How to choose an FPGA board

  • An independent review of available FPGA boards

  • What to do when you first get your FPGA board

  • How to download and install the free Xilinx design software

There's also an introductory offer on the full video guide, which includes

18 videos on getting started with Xilinx FPGAs. Some of the benefits are:

  • Save time and effort when getting started with FPGAs

  • Avoid the big mistakes that often derail first time FPGA users

  • Save money - advice to lower your cost when getting an FPGA board

  • Expand your design options by putting FPGAs in your toolbox

  • Achieve the satisfaction and fun of designing your own FPGA circuits

  • Amaze your colleagues with your new FPGA skills

  • Gain the skills and confidence needed to go on and make more complex designs

I look forward to seeing you over there. Grab the Free membership & have a look at the introductory offer on the full video guide

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Kind regards,

Anthony Burch

BurchED - Making it easy to get started with FPGAs

PS. A note for University Lecturers:

University & company site licenses are available. Minimise the amount of lecture time that you spend teaching FPGA basics. Let your students do this video course at home. Please email me for details about great value site licenses.

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Tony Burch
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Some initial feedback "Video #2" has the title " FPGAs for Beginners - The Top 6 Questions" followed by 6 questions. All the questions are covered in the video but the slides only state that there were 5 questions.

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Dwayne Dilbeck

Video 3b - At the end you recomend that your viewers purchase a Digilent board. You should add the reason for this recomendation. That reason being that future videos will be easier to follow if they purchase the digilent board. Althouhg the videos can be used with a non- digilent board.

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Dwayne Dilbeck

Hi Dwayne, thanks for checking out the videos and for your feedback.

You are right. I have changed it on the site. Video #2 (in the free membership area) is now...

FPGAs for Beginners - The Top 5 Questions What is an FPGA? And how is that different to a microcontroller? Who makes FPGAs? What can I use FPGAs for? Why would I want to use FPGAs? How can I learn FPGA design?...

The microcontroller topic is a kind of sub-question that I put in there.

Kind regards,

Anthony The BurchED Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide

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Tony Burch

Hi Dwayne,

In video 3b, we do take a quick look at other boards including Xess, Trenz, Enterpoint, KNJN & the list at fpga-faq. The reason I recommend Digilent is that because, in my opinion only, they are excellent value boards. I do say that in the videos, but I probably should more clearly state the reason for the recommendation.

You are right, it doesn't matter which board you have. The course is intended to be generic. So, for example, in video 13 where you enter I/O pad constraints, instead of looking in the Digilent Board Manual, you look in your own FPGA board manual to find out which pins the LEDs etc. are connected on you board.

The video course should be equally easy to follow, independent of which board you have.

By the way, another board that I didn't look at in the videos and I would have liked to include is the DLP Design Spartan-3E board called DLP-FPGA

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Kind regards,

Anthony The BurchED Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide

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Reply to
Tony Burch

I think enterpoint.co.uk products like the Craignell, Broaddown etc.. is worthwhile to mention. They are good value for the money.

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sky465nm

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