====== Getting started with FPGAs ======

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== Contents ==

   * Introduction
   * Basic concepts
   * Design flow
   * Tools overview
   * ...


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===== Introduction =====



===== Basic concepts =====



===== Design flow =====

===== Tools overview =====

Many different development softwares from different FPGA manufacturers or vendors.


   * Xilinx FPGAs (e.g. Sparta and Virtex series) => Xilinx ISE/Vivado

   * Altera FPGAs (e.g.Stratix and Cyclone series) => Quartus II 

   * ModelSim from Mentor Graphics

   * dedicated tools from Cadence



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Last update: [[pacher@NOSPAMto.infn.it|Luca Pacher]] - Sep 21, 2013
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