Now that I’ve got ISE working, I’ve started to learn Verilog. Verilog is an HDL (Hardware Description Language) used to express the behavior of logic systems. Its been fun. I’m still adapting to the shift in paradigm. This post covers some of the resources I found useful, and some of the bloated crap I created while learning to code. (more…)
In my previous post I mentioned I didn’t have any trouble installing ISE on my Ubuntu 08.04 PC. I lied. Actually, I installed it on my laptop with no problem. Today, I tried to install on my desktop. It took a lot of tweaking to get the software running well on x86_64. Here are some tips for getting ISE working. (more…)
Now that my A/C works, I’m trying to find a new projects. I’ve been looking into plastics (ABS and Plexiglas), thinking about how to get revenge on bots spamming my blog, and reading about FPGA’s. Plastics are useful for building cases, but I’ve done OK hacking crappy enclosure together. It might be fun to mess with the bots, but I’m afraid of upsetting the Russian mafia who runs them. With no choices left, I decided to pick up an FPGA dev kit. (more…)
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