Folks, spent time over the weekend progressing the FPGA workshop idea. My intention is to run a series of lab sessions, something like 2-4hrs each, one weekend per month.
The theme will be design and implementation of a RISC processor (Atmel AVR subset).
A GitHub repository under MHV has been created (thanks Paul Harvey). I have composed a list of AVR instructions to implement and am currently building it for myself so that I can plan the lecture and lab sequence.
Boardwise, I am leaning towards the Digilent Arty A7. It retails at USD99. I intend to do a bit of a write up on board options sometime soon. The board choice will not mandatory, just understand that my skills are exclusively in the Xilinx camp. Boards from other manufacturers can be used with the understanding that you need to do the extra legwork to figure things out.
Who is interested?