fpga design resources

From Ref[3], XILINX's Vivado does not support older FPGA devices, only 7 series FPGAs. ISE still support old FPGAs.

From Ref[4], XILINX ISE is supported on windows 7 and windows 2008 R2 well. On windows 8.1, need to do some file renaming to make it work.

Ref[5] contains a book and source codes for ZYNQ 7000 all programmable SOC. It provides tutorials to do HW design using Vivado 2014.1.

Ref[6] contains some design and tutorials on HDL design using Vivado.

1. How To Program an FPGA With Xilinx ISE Webpack In Verilog or VHDL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLOLBYxLXcE
2. Digilent Basys2 Xilinx Spartan 3E FGPA 100K Development Kit from Amazon
3. http://208.74.204.60/t5/Installation-and-Licensing/Vivado-or-ISE-WebPACK-for-students/td-p/498080
4. http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Installation-and-Licensing/ISE-WebPack-14-7-install-on-Windows-8-1-giving-pn-exe/td-p/510515
5. http://www.zynqbook.com/
6. http://www.xilinx.com/support/university/vivado/vivado-teaching-material/hdl-design.html