Re: Re: [oc] How To get started ?

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>]

Hi Jinni

perhaps you want cores with just a little testbench so that 
there is lots you can add?

I'm no expert with the opencores catalog, I'm sure maost 
know more.   I had no significant issues with the I2C core 
for example. I used verilog due to recent experiences, but 
mostly it ran.     If it all works, there is nothing to learn!

john






On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:16:44PM +0800, Jinni_Wen wrote:
> John Sheahan,
>     Where can I find the cores with a lot of testbench?
> I have downloaded a 8051 core of VHDL ,but i can find 
> its testbench.Can you help me? Or can you tell me where
> can i find other cores with lots of testbnech!
>     I'm a beginer.Thank you very much!
>     Best regards
>            Jinni Wen
> 
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> 
> >Hi
> >
> >my recommendation would be to choose a core with a 
> >bit of a testbench,  get a simulator, and simulate and 
> >understand the core.
> >
> >enhance the testbench, add more self checking
> >
> >then modify the core + tb together to add more 
> >features.
> >
> >then consider putting it into a fpga.
> >
> >choose something here that is interesting and 
> >reasonably obvservable without too much specialist 
> >test equipment.
> >you are interested in the core, not the items 
> >exercising it. 
> >
> >Xilinx and altera both have reasonable synthesis 
> >environments freely available at the lower end.
> >I've been playing with icarus verilog on linux,
> >its not as fast and the syntax error reporting 
> >messages are not as good  as verilogxl - say, 
> >but its 100 cheaper.
> >
> >john
> > 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:09:07AM -0800, Matts Kivik wrote:
> >>  I am interested in getting started with opencores, and think the first step would be to get one of the available cores up and running on an FPGA and test it out.
> >> 
> >> What is required, should I start with the micro fpga board ? 
> >> What kind of PC software is needed, is it available for free ?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Perhaps someone would like to write a getting-started-HOWTO ?
> >> 
> >> I am an electronics master engineer, with hardware knowledge, but no experience of FPGAs and IP cores.
> >> 
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