It took a week to get it from Washington state, but it’s finally here. My gorgeous Nexys 2 board I ordered from Digilent. It uses the Xilinx Spartan 3-e chip and has a lot of nice extra features that the one that Xilinx makes didn’t have. Digilent’s website also has a ton of cool addons for the board which I hope to get when there’s some money to spare. I’m going to start out slow and try and reacquaint myself a bit with verilog. My intent is to make a simple calculator and then perhaps move to converting my SLSL code for the 8085 over to verilog. The Nexys 2 board does come with some cool peripherals such as a ps2 port so I may get sidetracked and see what I can do if I hook up an old ball mouse too it. I’ll try to keep you all posted here so the RSS grabs it, but check the forum for code postings and photos. I’ll try to include links as things crop up.
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So, as it turns out. My Nexys 2 fpga board has a flaw :”( It so happens that the pushbuttons on my board were mislabeled. Thankfully the documentation was correct which is what I had gone off of. I did take the time to notify Digilent. They were aware of the problem and it just happened that I was shipped a board from an older batch. On a side note, Digilent picked up on the second ring so props to them for good customer service!