Starting with the Tang 9k FPGA.

2026–03–23

First Purchases and Inspiration :

After 2 semesters of courses covering FPGA and verilog development in computer architecture, I’ve finally decided to purchase my own Tang Nano 9k to start on a couple of extracurricular projects.

Why the Tang Nano 9k?

The Tang Nano 9k is frequently compared to it’s slightly larger brother, the 20k. But the difference between the two is not significant enough to warrant the extra 3 weeks of delivery I would have had to wait if I had purchased that.

The Plan

I’ll start by implementing the heavily reduced instruction set defined in the tutorials by Lushay Labs.