/prog/ - Fucking FPGAs

Name: How do they work ? 2012-10-13 2:54

Hi /prog/
I've heard many things about FPGA lately, and I would like to buy one just for fun. The problem is, I'm a CS student, so I barely have enough money to buy food.
What's a good FPGA board to begin with, without being too costly ?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-13 7:29

>>7
No, fuck Xilinx. They've got so much useless middle-management that have nothing better to do than to make it as difficult as possible to use their parts. It's a fucking ordeal just to get to the stage of being allowed to download their fucking shitty buggy bitrotting piece of crap design software, which they distribute as a 4GB uncompressed TAR file because fuck you. Every interaction I've had with Xilinx have left me apoplectic and raging as they make clear that they don't want you as a customer and that you should be fucking happy for the privilege of being allowed to pay for their products.

Over at Altera you just enter a fake email address and click "download".

Fucking FPGAs

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Name: Anonymous 2012-10-13 7:29