Difference between revisions of "Using FPGA"

1. Starting Up with FPGA

All you need to know to play with the Armadeus FPGA.

Design Tools

Description of tools used to simulate, to synthesize, and to download/configure FGPA.

• ISE WebPack (Xilinx's free devt tool) installation
• How to setup the FPGA toolchain in Ubuntu/Debian
• How to simulate post synthesis and post place & route design with GHDL

2. Make some examples

These examples give the basis to make VHDL design for FPGA.

• LED
• Complete example with button and led on wishbone bus communication and Linux drivers

Using ARMadeus FPGA

Manage the FGPA from ARMadeus distribution.

• Configure the FPGA from Linux
• Configure the FPGA from U-Boot
• Update the U-Boot FPGA firmware from Linux
• Access the FPGA address domain from Linux
• Ho! No FPGA-reset button on armadeus card.

3. Automatize FPGA design making

Peripherals On Demand

For complex projects, POD should be used to simplify design.

VHDL

• VHDL coding styles & externals documentations
• Nice ideas/examples to look at
• www.opencores.org
• An Introductory VHDL Tutorial

Links

Some useful links.

Wishbone

• official Wishbone specifications
• Wikipedia Wishbone doc

Spartan

• Spartan-3 FPGA Family Data Sheet

Orchestra

• Orchestra website
• Orchestra project page