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=head1 SOURCE FOR "FPGAs?! Now What?" TEXT.

These are the source files for the text "FPGAs?! Now What?", a book about FPGA design using Xilinx ISE WebPACK and the XuLA FPGA board.

=head1 SOURCE FILE ORGANIZATION

The source files for the book are organized as follows:

FpgasNowWhat:    // Top-level directory
    FpgasNowWhatBook.odm    // Master book file that incorporates material from all the subdirectories.
    Chapters:    // Subdirectory containing the source for each chapter.
        FirstFpgaDownload:  // Subdirectory containing the source files for this chapter.
            FirstFpgaDownload.odt    // Chapter text (OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer file).
            Figures:                 // Subdirectory containing figure graphics source files.
                *.svg                // Inkscape files for figures. (Not used directly in text.)
                *.png                // Bitmaps of Inkscape files. (For inclusion in text.)
            FPGA:                    // Subdirectory containing FPGA project examples for this chapter.
                blinker:             // Subdirectory of Xilinx ISE 13 project files.
                    blinker.xise     // Xilinx ISE 13 project file.
                    ...              // The rest of the project files.
            Videos:                  // Subdirectory containing video clips.
                blinker_0001.mp4     // Video of blinker operation. 
        Compiler Basics:    // Same subdirectory structure for this chapter.
            ...
        FirstFpgaDesign:    // Same subdirectory structure for this chapter.
            ...
        ...                 // Additional chapters.

=head1 TOOLS

All the text is in .odt files written using LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. All the figures are .svg files created with Inkscape. All the images are .png files captured with various tools. All the videos are .mp4 files.

=head1 AUTHOR

Dave Vanden Bout, X Engineering Software Systems Corp, [email protected].

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSES

©2011 - X Engineering Software Systems Corp. (www.xess.com)

=head2 Book License

All text, graphics and video for this book are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

=head2 Software License

All FPGA project files, scripts and program code are licensed under a GPL license as follows:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

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