Newby Getting started with FPGA

Huianx
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:03:25 +1100

I am new to the FPGA and I want to learn by small experiments.

Can some FPGA experts tell me what is the easiest and least expensive way of
getting started ?

What eventually I want to implement (what I'm dreaming) are;
    * Communicate with four RS232 devices (115200baud) simultaneously
    * Control 16 parallel I/O lines
    * Encode/decode multi channel Radio Control signals
        http://www.mp.ttu.ee/risto/rc/electronics/radio/signal.htm
        http://www.veetail.com/HowRCworks.shtml
        http://www.mh.ttu.ee/risto/rc/electronics/pctorc.htm
        http://adamone.rchomepage.com/guide1.htm
    * Control high speed (5MHz sampling rate, 12-16bit resolution) Analog to
Digital converter to digitise high frequecy signals and being able to
transfer the digitised data to a PC via either USB3 and/or Firewire to
perform FFT
    * Decode and count quadrature encoder signals
    * Multi channel PID servo controller with PWM and/or analog outputs