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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

Summary

In this chapter, we've explored how to do some simple communication with the outside world. We've gathered microphone data, stored it, and played it back. We've also explored the I2C bus, a common way of communicating with slower speed devices. We captured temperature data and showed how we could display a fixed-point number on the 7-segment display. We introduced FIFOs and discussed how we can filter the data to remove the noisiness of the temperature data varying.

I2C interfaces are used to communicate with many low speed devices such as A/Ds and D/As and are very important for a lot of FPGA designs. You should feel comfortable that you can do it at this point, and we will explore making a more generic version of the interface in a later chapter. If you are interested in audio data, you should have some confidence in capturing, manipulating, and generating audio.

In the next chapter, we are going to look at some mathematical operations. We'll explore...