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FPGA Programming for Beginners

By : Frank Bruno
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Book Image

FPGA Programming for Beginners

5 (1)
By: Frank Bruno

Overview of this book

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have now become a core part of most modern electronic and computer systems. However, to implement your ideas in the real world, you need to get your head around the FPGA architecture, its toolset, and critical design considerations. FPGA Programming for Beginners will help you bring your ideas to life by guiding you through the entire process of programming FPGAs and designing hardware circuits using SystemVerilog. The book will introduce you to the FPGA and Xilinx architectures and show you how to work on your first project, which includes toggling an LED. You’ll then cover SystemVerilog RTL designs and their implementations. Next, you’ll get to grips with using the combinational Boolean logic design and work on several projects, such as creating a calculator and updating it using FPGA resources. Later, the book will take you through the advanced concepts of AXI and show you how to create a keyboard using PS/2. Finally, you’ll be able to consolidate all the projects in the book to create a unified output using a Video Graphics Array (VGA) controller that you’ll design. By the end of this SystemVerilog FPGA book, you’ll have learned how to work with FPGA systems and be able to design hardware circuits and boards using SystemVerilog programming.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures
3
Section 2: Introduction to Verilog RTL Design, Simulation, and Implementation
9
Section 3: Interfacing with External Components

Questions

  1. What are AXI streaming interfaces best for?

    a) Burst transactions to multiple memory addresses

    b) Point-to-point connections

    c) High-performance connections

    d) B&C

  2. What is the IP integrator?

    a) An easy way to create block-based designs using Xilinx or user-defined IP

    b) A context-sensitive editor for HDL designs

    c) Not very good at aiding design debug

  3. If you want to create an IP from an existing design, you would use Create and package new IP. True or false?
  4. You cannot use Create and package new IP to generate a design wrapper with AXI interfaces to create your own designs. True or false?
  5. When should full AXI interfaces be used?

    a) When you need a high-performance interface that can burst data to multiple memory addresses.

    b) When you only write a single register at a time infrequently.

    c) When you have lots of data to move between two cores where the destination is a FIFO-like interface.

    d) All the time. They are cheap to implement and can do everything.

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