[Cryptech Tech] FPGAs for Dummies

[Warren Kumari]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Joachim Strömbergson
<joachim at secworks.se> wrote:
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> Aloha!
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> Altera has released a for Dummies book about FPGAs. Very high level but
> might answer some questions. Sign up to get the PDF:

Thanks for this. I've read a number of the introductions to PLC / FPGA
books, and written some horrendous code (that I still don't understand
how it works^W does what it does), but this all still feels like black
magic. More FPGA for dummies / Verilog/VHDL guides are really useful
(to me at least).

I can only very kinda sorta understand a single threaded program.
Throw in some sort of parallelism (like a thread or two) and I start
going cross-eyed. My mind simply shuts down when I need to imagine "do
this thing every time there is a clock cycle, don't worry, the data
will be there."

W


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> http://design.altera.com/New2FPGAeBook?utm_source=open_systems&utm_medium=third_party_email&utm_campaign=New%20to%20FPGAs&utm_content=_FPGAs+For+Dummies+Green&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6nKZKXonjHpfsX56O8vXKSwlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTLDMMal51LgFUhg%3D
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> (love those urls.)
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