Difference between revisions of "Using 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

Using ARMadeus FPGA

Manage the FGPA from ARMadeus distribution.

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

Designs examples

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

• LED
• Button and LED
• Button, Linux drivers, Wishbone bus communication and LED

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

VHDL

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

Peripheral On Demand

POD is a Python tool that allows you to easily create FPGA bitstream for your embedded system, from several Open Source IPs.

Introduction

• Global description

Specifications

• POD specification
• sources repository

Use cases

• Tutorial 1 : i2c-led-button
• Tutorial 2 : uart

Links

Some useful links.

Wishbone

• official Wishbone specifications
• Wikipedia Wishbone doc

Spartan

• Spartan-3 FPGA Family Data Sheet

Orchestra

• Orchestra website
• Orchestra project page