1. Xilinx offers free design tools for their CPLD (complex programmable logic device (macrocell-based)) parts. See http://www.xilinx.com/products/software/webpowered .htm.
2. Xilinx has $100 tools for their FPGA parts as part of the Xilinx Student Ed. 1.5. Highly recommended. These tools are perfectly adequate for building 32-bit RISC CPUs and integrated systems-on-a-chip.
3. See http://www.optimagic.com/lowcost.shtml for a long list of other free or inexpensive FPGA tools.
I enjoyed reading this. It is great to have a well-organized one-source presentation of the classics.
My one complaint: as is often the case for academic texts, is it does not even mention important deployed industry technologies.
For example, if I recall correctly, in its discussion of distributed GC, there is nary a mention of DCOM or CORBA. (The book was published in 1996, when DCOM and some CORBA ORBs were shipping.)
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1. Xilinx offers free design tools for their CPLD (complex programmable logic device (macrocell-based)) parts. See http://www.xilinx.com/products/software/webpowered .htm.
2. Xilinx has $100 tools for their FPGA parts as part of the Xilinx Student Ed. 1.5. Highly recommended. These tools are perfectly adequate for building 32-bit RISC CPUs and integrated systems-on-a-chip.
3. See http://www.optimagic.com/lowcost.shtml for a long list of other free or inexpensive FPGA tools.
"you can stop at a breakpoint, change the code and carry on running "
"Would I want to see it in Delphi or C?"
FYI, edit-and-continue is a feature MS VC++ 6.0.
Indeed, IIRC, the original definition of metre was one ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole, through Paris, to the equator.
I enjoyed reading this. It is great to have a well-organized one-source presentation of the classics.
My one complaint: as is often the case for academic texts, is it does not even mention important deployed industry technologies.
For example, if I recall correctly, in its discussion of distributed GC, there is nary a mention of DCOM or CORBA. (The book was published in 1996, when DCOM and some CORBA ORBs were shipping.)