Considering the saying "jack of all trades, master of none". What have you achieved mastery in? If none yet, what would you want to become a Master of.
this is not going to get you all the way to making (functional/good) FPGA designs, but if you come from zero and have nobody else to guide you, then having all steps at once is a bit much, maybe do this, afaik ModelSim is free (at least it was some years ago)
it's just a way for you to get started very fast, and just get going with trying things out, also simulating VHDL by other people, on opencores or github
yeah that's great. tbh we are getting a couple fpga-based eval platforms sent to us under embargo. i was going to give one to navadeep and give the other away after an unboxing, but maybe navadeep will have to give his away now
first I'd like to get just into actually high speed digital circuits, where RF effects matter for routing and such (impedance matching and all that), just haven't gone there yet (not done in practice for PCB development)
then non microwave but actual radio related stuff, stuff on the board, and maybe doing even board antenna's, not sure I'd go up to microwave.. though curious
Is there something specific you'd like to learn or some way you'd like to go about learning the HS digital stuff on PCB? Petr and I are developing demo video content and welcome ideas
I think what I want goes way beyond the basics, but I think an example that would be instructive, would be e.g. "just" something standard, not a custom RF thing, but just for an existing standard, that would also probably be valueable to the largest number of people, say.. Decide on a standard protocol in RF, like Bluetooth, IEEE802.11, or whatever. And then in e.g. KiCad, design the RF critical path, from the PHY-Chip to a PCB antenna, antenna doesn't even have to be fully "self"-designed, but maybe coming from the Antenna Designer in Matlab.
I have used Modelsim only once for a digital design course. This one is open to use over web with templates for implementing math logics or algorithms - https://www.makerchip.com/