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Any suggestions of starter FPGA projects for someone who is a programmer but wants to get into FPGAs?
by kanwisher 12y ago
Any suggestions of starter FPGA projects for someone who is a programmer but wants to get into FPGAs?
- sliverstorm 12y agoStart simple. Implement an adder, configured by some switches. Represent the output in binary on some LED's. This will help you wrap your head around some of the important basics, and then you can go from there. It is very difficult to debug FPGAs so it is important to "build up" to what you want in piece by easy to verify piece, instead of trying to build the whole thing at once and debug it later.
- ioseph 12y agoDepends on which peripherals you have. * A good start is a stop watch (if you have a 7seg and buttons available) * Implement a digital function generator without using look-up tables. (Can read values over serial) * If you have access to an ADC and DAC implement an echo filter, then a tuneable butterworth
- s_baby 12y agoBuild state-machines or cpu using logic gates in logisim. It sounds complex but there are only a handful of primitives you have to understand. Learning that FPGA conditionals are equivalent to multiplexers is much easier to learn when you make one by hand.
- 8note 12y agofind some other chip you like, and write an interface for it.
- tikwidd 12y agohttp://www.fpga4fun.com http://www.fpga4fun.com has some nice projects for starting out with FPGAs.