Using FPGA

First recommended readings

• FPGA on APF introduction

Developing on the APF FPGA

Tools Description of tools used to simulate, to synthesize and to download/configure FGPA. FPGA firmware installation (on U-Boot) ISE WebPack (Xilinx's free devt tool) installation How to setup the FPGA toolchain in Ubuntu/Debian Configure the FPGA from Linux Access the FPGA address domain from Linux How to simulate post synthesis and post place & route design with GHDL	Xilinx documentation links Spartan-3 FPGA Family Data Sheet
Designs LED Button and LED Button, Linux drivers, Wishbone bus communication and LED	VHDL VHDL coding styles Nice ideas/examples to look at www.opencores.org An Introductory VHDL Tutorial
Peripheral On Demand POD specification sources repository	Comments about POD
Orchestra Spécification d'Orchestra (French) Draft: Diagrammes des cas d'utilisations du logiciel Elaboration du projet Orchestra en Python (French) Spécification de l'architecture du FPGA (french)	Links Wishbone official Wishbone specifications Wikipedia Wishbone doc