Getting Started with FPGAs

2 SETTING UP YOUR HARDWARE AND TOOLS

This chapter walks you through the process of choosing an FPGA development board and setting up the associated software tools that you’ll need to translate your Verilog or VHDL code into physical circuits on your FPGA. You’ll learn about the features to look for in a board, download and install the tools you need to work with it, and test them out by designing your first FPGA project to target your development board. This project will also give you an overview of the main steps in the FPGA development process.

An FPGA development board isn’t strictly required to use this book. You can still learn from ...