13 Nov
2011
13 Nov
'11
12:18 p.m.
On 11/12/2011 9:41 PM, David Riley wrote:
I should warn you: coming from a pure software
background into FPGA
development is a very sharp transition. It's not software, no
matter how much my company's clients might like to think it is. It
doesn't work the same way at all; "software people" can learn FPGA
design, but they will have to un-learn a lot of assumptions about
code before it makes any sense. It's honestly a lot more like
writing up the netlist to a circuit board at a slightly higher
level.
It depends. I find HDL to be the first cousin to Dataflow
architecture. (e.g. constrast "normal" software programming with
programming a NEC 7281). Once I got that through my head, things got
a lot easier.
Of course, I'm also very strange...
--Chuck