[SunRescue] I could run a small country...

[Dave McGuire]

On December 24, James Lockwood wrote:
> FPGA's.  VHDL requires some adjustment compared with procedural
> programming languages, but it's amazing what can be done even without a
> microprocessor in the picture.  Xilinx finally released their
> compiler/programmer for free and the chips are incredibly cheap. 

  I've been dying to get into that stuff.  Can you offer any
suggestions as to how to get started?

         -Dave McGuire