A good book for FPGAs

July 8, 2005 7:01 AM

Learning Field Programmable Gate Arrays... Know a good book?

I'm a recently graduated with a a bachelor's in computer engineering and some experience with FPGAs. Can anybody recommend a GREAT book for learning more FPGA design and theory? Best if it is geared towards applications of FPGAs for numerical computation, linear algebra and FFT-style stuff...

posted by onalark to technology (4 comments total)

for programming them, or for designing the silicon? (i can't help with either, but an answer to the first would interest me too).
posted by andrew cooke at 11:49 AM on July 8, 2005

No book recommendations, but can I suggest fpga4fun, OpenCores, and comp.arch.fpga [google version]?
posted by hattifattener at 12:29 PM on July 8, 2005

I programmed FPGAs extensively after college (ECE as well). I mainly used my digital design textbooks (Mano et al). I programmed Xilinx FPGAs, and I remember being sent to some sort of training seminar by Xilinx. Of course with FPGAs, the secret is, regardless how talented you are, someone has already written something like what you need in a library somewhere. This was 8 years ago, so maybe things have changed.
posted by patrickje at 1:30 PM on July 8, 2005

This is not what you're looking for, but it's awesome anyway. :)
posted by trevyn at 4:18 PM on July 8, 2005