Links

The main FPGA vendors in the world are

• Xilinx and their University Program.
• Altera and their University Program.
• Lattice and their University Program.
• Actel
• QuickLogic
• SiliconBlue, a provider of low-power FPGAs.

Other links

• A repository of many FPGA-FAQs, created from the comp.arch.fpga newsgroup.
• Lots of FPGA links on this ePanarama page. The page has a nasty popup though.
• The opencores.org site, with its growing collection of projects.
• Some nice conference papers and articles from Andraka's site, plus other nice pages like Multiplication in FPGAs and Distributed Arithmetic.
• The FPGA Arcade site, with old popular games recreated in FPGAs.
• Build your own FPGA-based Logic Analyzer. Also from the same author, FreePCB freeware PCB layout software.
• The OpenCollector Database, a compilation of open hardware tools & designs.
• The Alien Slaughter II video game on an FPGA.
• MyHDL, an open source package that lets you use Python as an hardware description and verification language.
• Tutorials for Xilinx FPGAs on the FPGA Developer website.

The latest fun is to put a custom CPU inside an FPGA.
Broad subject. Try these links:

• The FPGA CPU web site, and their XSOC CPU project.
• The CD16 soft CPU core, a synthesizable 16-bit CPU with development tools.
• A nice list of Open IPs / Open Cores.
• The Leon-2 SPARC core.
• The Nios-II CPU, with many projects and links from the Cornell University.

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This page was last updated on April 30 2009.