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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. Which of the following are true about internal versus external memory?

    a) DDR memory storage capacity is much smaller than BRAM.

    b) For the same memory data width, DDR has much higher performance than BRAM.

    c) The latency to access data from BRAM and DDR is identical.

    d) You should always use LUTRAM first before using any other memory type.

  2. To generate DDR2 memory for our project, we used the Xilinx:

    a) Massive IP Goliath (MIG)

    b) Minimally Informative Google (MIG)

    c) Memory Interface Generator (MIG)

  3. We can use ILAs to examine data in the FPGA and VIOs to read and write data.

    a) True

    b) False

  4. Artix 7 FPGAs can use which of the following memories from the MIG?

    a) DDR2

    b) DDR3

    c) DDR4

    d) LPDDR2

    e) QDR

  5. It is possible to use HyperRAM, SPI RAM, and SDRAM if you are willing to write your own controllers.

    a) True

    b) False

Challenge

We've created the DDR2 using the MIG and we have the example design. We don't have a way of inserting errors. Can you utilize...