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Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

pchan — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:26:14 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by pchan on 5/17/2022 7:26:14 PM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Winner

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/hack-cpumod-s7-5-peripheral-remapping

Runner Up

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Security Camera - Finisher

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

This project uses the CMOD S7 FPGA board to interface the OV7670 camera and save the image data to SD card. This security camera can be triggered either by movements, loud sounds, fire, or by manually pushing the button.

Security Hardware Accelerator - Finisher

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector - Finisher

kluivertcorreia

LiFi: The Sequence Detector. I plan on using a sequence detector in unwrapping a framed packet, by detecting the start or end bytes or any sort of command byte. In this blog I will be implementing a 4-bit sequence detector to simplify the process of the creating the state diagram. Judges loved how Very Detailed the blogs are with lots of theory.

FPGA Audio Synthesis - Finisher

a33333

This project is the creation of a test bench and a collection of Verilog modules for a FPGA-based, musical synthesizer that uses subtractive synthesis for sound generation hardware and return encryption codes back.
Arduino for Implementation and CMOD S7 for Synthesis. Project is also public on GitHub

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition. - Finisher

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Tags: summer_of_fpga, digilent

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

pchan — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:25:18 GMT

Revision 8 posted to Documents by pchan on 5/17/2022 7:25:18 PM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Winner

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/hack-cpumod-s7-5-peripheral-remapping

Runner Up

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Security Camera - Finisher

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

Security Hardware Accelerator - Finisher

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector - Finisher

kluivertcorreia

FPGA Audio Synthesis - Finisher

a33333

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition. - Finisher

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Tags: summer_of_fpga, digilent

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

pchan — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:18:37 GMT

Revision 7 posted to Documents by pchan on 3/3/2022 10:18:37 PM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Winner

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/proof-of-concept-cpumod-s7-1

Runner Up

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Security Camera - Finisher

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

Security Hardware Accelerator - Finisher

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector - Finisher

kluivertcorreia

FPGA Audio Synthesis - Finisher

a33333

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition. - Finisher

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Tags: summer_of_fpga, digilent

Summer of FPGA - Meet the Challengers and Updated Dates

pchan — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:17:15 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by pchan on 3/3/2022 10:17:15 PM

Meet the Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design challenge

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Summer of FPGAs Design Challenge, in partnership with Digilent.

Join me in congratulating the Official Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge, these challengers will be shipped the Cmod S7 Free of charge.

@walking_off_with_smile

The Cmod S7 is a small, 48‐pin DIP form factor board, built around the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA.

These selected challengers will receive the FREE board to help power up their FPGA project!

What can you build?

Example applications could include:

Image Recognition
Home Scientific Equipment
Signal Processor
Proof of Concept
Processor Off Loading System

To make enough time for the holiday period and delivery of the kits, we have updated the Project Due deadlines.

Updated Competition Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	CLOSED
Application Deadline	CLOSED
Challengers Announced	Now
Build Period	22nd November 2021 - 31st January 2022
Projects Due	31st January 2022
Winners Announced	February 2022
Prizes Shipped	February 2022

The Terms

Selected official applicants will be chosen to receive the "Kit" listed above. These successful applicants will be our sponsored challengers, and they must use Diglient's Cmod S7 within their project, and publish their final code and designs on the Community for others to use. Those not chosen as sponsored challengers may also join the competition and be eligible to win prizes, but they must base their projects around the kit listed above and adhere to all terms and conditions of the challenge.

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date (see above), when projects are due.

Posts which use the FPGA most creatively, are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Tags: summer_of_fpga, digilent

Summer of FPGA - Meet the Challengers and Updated Dates

pchan — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 22:16:36 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Documents by pchan on 3/3/2022 10:16:36 PM

Meet the Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design challenge

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Summer of FPGAs Design Challenge, in partnership with Digilent.

Join me in congratulating the Official Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge, these challengers will be shipped the Cmod S7 Free of charge.

@walking_off_with_smile

The Cmod S7 is a small, 48‐pin DIP form factor board, built around the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA.

These selected challengers will receive the FREE board to help power up their FPGA project!

What can you build?

Example applications could include:

Image Recognition
Home Scientific Equipment
Signal Processor
Proof of Concept
Processor Off Loading System

To make enough time for the holiday period and delivery of the kits, we have updated the Project Due deadlines.

Updated Competition Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	CLOSED
Application Deadline	CLOSED
Challengers Announced	Now
Build Period	22nd November 2021 - 31st January 2022
Projects Due	31st January 2022
Winners Announced	February 2022
Prizes Shipped	February 2022

The Terms

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date (see above), when projects are due.

Posts which use the FPGA most creatively, are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Summer Of FPGAs - Design Challenge

pchan — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:47:05 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by pchan on 3/3/2022 5:47:05 PM

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

The Summer of FPGAs has been a groovy series of educational events on FPGA-related topics. Now, this is your chance to flex your FPGA muscles and put your skills to the test, by enrolling in our latest design challenge!

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

The Challenge

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Summer of FPGAs Design Challenge, in partnership with Digilent.

Submit your application with a summary describing an FPGA project of your choice, using Diglient's Cmod S7 for a chance to win a range of amazing prizes. The possibilities are endless—refer to the examples below to see what you could build.

The Cmod S7 is a small, 48‐pin DIP form factor board, built around the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA. The selected 30 challengers will receive the FREE board to help power up their FPGA project!

What can you build?

Example applications could include:

Image Recognition
Home Scientific Equipment
Signal Processor
Proof of Concept
Processor Off Loading System

The Sponsored Kit	The Specs
Digilent Cmod S7 Buy NowBuy Now	It has 32 FPGA digital I/O signals, 2 FPGA analogue input signals, an external power input rail, and ground are routed to 100‐mil‐spaced through‐hole pins. The Cmod S7 is well suited for use with solderless breadboards. At just 0.7" by 3.05" inches, it can be loaded in a standard socket and used in embedded systems. The board also includes a programming ROM, clock source, USB programming and data transfer circuit, power supplies, LEDs, and buttons. Xilinx Spartan‐7 FPGA (XC7S25‐1CSGA225C) 4MB quad‐SPI flash memory Powered from USB or 5V external supply connected to DIP pin 24 USB‐JTAG programming circuitry, USB‐UART bridge Push‐buttons and LEDs Expansion connectors 48‐pin DIP form‐factor header

The Sponsored Kit

The Specs

Digilent Cmod S7

Buy NowBuy Now

It has 32 FPGA digital I/O signals, 2 FPGA analogue input signals, an external power input rail, and ground are routed to 100‐mil‐spaced through‐hole pins. The Cmod S7 is well suited for use with solderless breadboards. At just 0.7" by 3.05" inches, it can be loaded in a standard socket and used in embedded systems.

The board also includes a programming ROM, clock source, USB programming and data transfer circuit, power supplies, LEDs, and buttons.

Xilinx Spartan‐7 FPGA (XC7S25‐1CSGA225C)
4MB quad‐SPI flash memory
Powered from USB or 5V external supply connected to DIP pin 24
USB‐JTAG programming circuitry, USB‐UART bridge
Push‐buttons and LEDs
Expansion connectors
48‐pin DIP form‐factor header

Be Rewarded on the Community

For entering and taking part in the Design Challenge competition, you'll be rewarded the following badges:

	Apply to join the Design Challenge and receive a badge and points for applying! Make sure you've thought your application through, made it original and your own work. If you are building upon someone else's work, make sure you cite your sources. Direct copies of work will not be accepted.
	Post your first blog! We expect updates on how your Design Challenge project is going, so don't hold back, tell us your thoughts, difficulties, and how you're progressing. Remember that you're assessed based upon your updates, and don't be afraid - other challengers and members are there to help you with any problems you have, and it helps the staff to keep an eye on you!
	5 blogs! Wow, has it really been that long? We hope you'll keep us updated about your project at least once every two weeks, for 10 weeks. We'll not be impressed if you only put a one-liner in there, that's what messages are for. Blogs are to make sure you're giving us all of the juicy detail, trials and tribulations of what's going on, and it keeps everyone honest!
	Even if you're not a challenger in the Design Challenge, we appreciate every member who joins in and gives a helping hand to applicants and members. If your messages are found to be helpful, we want to acknowledge that and reward you!

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

The Judges

Digilent Technical Judge Team
element14 Community Judges element14 Community Team

Need help? Comment and read the resources below:

Technical Resources:

Start up Reference:

https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/start

User Manual:

https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/reference-manual?redirect=1

Use Xilinx Analog-to-Digital (XADC) with breadboardable Spartan 7 FPGA module

Use Xilinx Analog-to-Digital (XADC) with breadboardable Spartan 7 FPGA module

Mechanical Drawings (DXF)

https://digilent.com/reference/_media/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/cmod_s7_dimensions.zip

Callout	Description	Callout	Description
1	48-pin DIP form factor head	7	UART status LED
2	FPGA programming DONE LED	8	Shared USB JTAG/UART port
3	Pmod connector	9	Power good LED
4	User push buttons	10	Spartan-7 FPGA
5	User LEDs	11	SPI Flash
6	Use tri-color LED

Example Projects

Software Notes:

The Cmod S7 can be programmed with Digilent's Adept software. Digilent Adept is a unique and powerful solution which allows you to communicate with Digilent system boards and a wide assortment of logic devices. Find out more about Adept here.

To create and modify designs for your Cmod S7, you can use Xilinx's Vivado Design Suite. Vivado is a software designed for the synthesis and analysis of HDL designs. Both variants of the Cmod S7 are supported by the free WebPACK edition of the Vivado Design Suite.

If you are using the MicroBlaze Soft Processor Core from Xilinx, you can make use of the Vitis Core Development Kit or Xilinx Software Development Kit to create embedded applications for your Cmod S7.

The Dates

To make enough time for the holiday period and delivery of the kits, we have updated the Project Due deadlines.

Updated Competition Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	CLOSED
Application Deadline	CLOSED
Challengers Announced	CLOSED
Build Period	22nd November 2021 - 31st January 2022
Projects Due	31st January 2022
Winners Announced	February 2022
Prizes Shipped	February 2022

The Terms

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date (see above), when projects are due.

Posts which use the FPGA most creatively, are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Ready to join the challenge? Then Apply Here!

If you are not successful in becoming a sponsored challenger but still want to enter, all you need to do is use the Kit as described above in your project and adhere to the same Terms and Conditions for a chance to be our winner! Non-sponsored challengers are eligible for the Finisher and Winner Prizes as well.

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../Summer-Of-FPGA-Design-Challenge-Terms-Version-1.pdf

Summer Of FPGA Design Challenge Terms Version 1.pdf

Tags: design_challenge, summer_of_fpga, digilent

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

e14phil — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:50:51 GMT

Revision 6 posted to Documents by e14phil on 3/3/2022 11:50:51 AM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Winner

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/proof-of-concept-cpumod-s7-1

Runner Up

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Security Camera - Finisher

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

Security Hardware Accelerator - Finisher

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector - Finisher

kluivertcorreia

FPGA Audio Synthesis - Finisher

a33333

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition. - Finisher

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

e14phil — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:50:51 GMT

Revision 5 posted to Documents by e14phil on 3/3/2022 11:50:51 AM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Winner

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/proof-of-concept-cpumod-s7-1

Runner Up

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Security Camera - Finisher

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

Security Hardware Accelerator - Finisher

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector - Finisher

kluivertcorreia

FPGA Audio Synthesis - Finisher

a33333

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition. - Finisher

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

e14phil — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:35:30 GMT

Revision 4 posted to Documents by e14phil on 2/8/2022 2:35:30 PM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

FPGA Security Camera

angelo76

www.youtube.com/watch

Security Hardware Accelerator

fyaocn

Security Hardware Accelerator uses FPGA to encode signals from host hardware and return encryption codes back.
Great FPGA usage and very detailed blogs

LiFi: The Sequence Detector

kluivertcorreia

Liquid Level Monitoring with a Pressure Sensor

guillengap

www.youtube.com/watch

Using the FPGA to calibrate and monitor liquid level, great use of FPGA in Vivado, Blog were well written and they really showed all their math!

FPGA Audio Synthesis

a33333

FPGA ANPR - Numberplate recognition.

taifur

This is a automatic number plate reading platform using just the Cmod S7 and a camera.

This project is especially exciting as Taifur is new to FPGAs and made great use of publicly avalible libraries and research.

Hack CPUMOD S7 - Rebuilding a CPU in FPGA

pandoramc

This project is an amazing example of rebuilding a working CPU inside an FPGA, the project is well made, the blogs are well written and honestly blew our minds a little.

https://community.elementa14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/summer-of-fpga/b/blog/posts/proof-of-concept-cpumod-s7-1

Winners Announcement - Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

e14phil — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:05:19 GMT

Revision 3 posted to Documents by e14phil on 2/8/2022 1:05:19 PM

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge with Diglient's Cmod S7

This challenge has flexed everything our challengers have learned during the Summer of FPGA!

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

Guillermo Perez @amgalbu - Finisher

Object Classifier And Counter

Judges loved the use of ModusToolbox, UBIDOTS, ThingSpeak

Ambrogio Galbusera - Runner Up of the Low Power IoT Challenge

Ultra Low Power Pallet Tracker

Judges loved the 6 Years of Battery life and the mobile compatible app!

Congratulations amgalbu

Check out the final demo here:

/challenges-projects/design-challenges/low-power-iot/b/blog/posts/pallet-tracker---07---final-demo

Code is available at
https://github.com/ambrogio-galbusera/pallet_tracker

Ashok R asokfair - Finisher

Solar Powered Smart Composter

Judges loved the AWS Connection, the Green and ultra low power concept, and using an existing prize from another design challenge!

www.youtube.com/watch

F Yao fyaocn - Finisher

BLE Drum

Judges enjoyed this exploration of timings using FreeRTOS, the Android Studio BLE Mobile App, ModusToolbox / Eclipse IDE and the uses of Capsense and with PWM.

www.youtube.com/watch

Charles Mao @cmelement14 - Finisher

Low Power Sump Well Water Monitoring

Judges enjoyed the use of MQTT Messaging, AWS IoT, clever use of ModusToolbox Templates and a super beefy UPS System!

Stephen Krudlewicz @skrudlewicz - Finisher

BPM Display

This project might not be fully finished but the judges were impressed with Stephen building a working Heart Monitor from scratch and how well documented it is.
The use of AWS and IoT MQTT as well as Connecting PSoC 6 and Arduino MKR fo expansion of features.

Ralph Yamamoto ralphjy - Winner of Low Power IoT Design Challenge
Low Power Secure Entry Project

The judges were blown away buy such an amazing project including Microwave Motion Detection, Object Classification, Facial Recognition and Access that is also Low Power Optimized!

Md. Khairul Alam taifur - Finisher

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

The judges loved that this project was very educational and well written, and athough it is not very low power its self but helps save power, with very good use of MQTT and Cloud connection.

The Sponsored Kit	The Specs
PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) Buy NowBuy Now	• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM • The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio • CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders • PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug • Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Sponsored Kit

The Specs

PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit

(CY8CKIT-062S2-43012)

Buy NowBuy Now

• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM

• The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio

• CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders

• PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug

• Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Judges

Infineon Technical Judge Team
element14 Community Judges element14 Community Team	2117.contentimage_211379.png

Winners Announcement - Low Power IoT Design Challenge

e14phil — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:42:40 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Documents by e14phil on 12/1/2021 3:42:40 PM

Low Power IoT Design Challenge

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Low Power IoT Design Challenge with Infineon, using the PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit !

Make IoT work in industry, using Infineon’s low-power compute, connectivity, and sensing technology!

68 Blogs, 28 Videos and a whole lot of blood sweat and tears.

The winners will win the following prizes and anyone who hit the Finisher criteria will get the finisher prize.

Winners will be sent prizes to the address on their application and will be contacted by danzima

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* 11” Apple iPad Pro, 128GB, Wi-Fi Solar Powered Charger
	Runner Up* Apple iPad Mini, 64GB, Wi-Fi Solar Powered Charger
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

11” Apple iPad Pro, 128GB, Wi-Fi
Solar Powered Charger

Runner Up*

Apple iPad Mini, 64GB, Wi-Fi
Solar Powered Charger

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

xxx

Guillermo Perez @amgalbu - Finisher

Object Classifier And Counter

Judges loved the use of ModusToolbox, UBIDOTS, ThingSpeak

Ambrogio Galbusera - Runner Up of the Low Power IoT Challenge

Ultra Low Power Pallet Tracker

Judges loved the 6 Years of Battery life and the mobile compatible app!

Congratulations amgalbu

Check out the final demo here:

/challenges-projects/design-challenges/low-power-iot/b/blog/posts/pallet-tracker---07---final-demo

Code is available at
https://github.com/ambrogio-galbusera/pallet_tracker

Ashok R asokfair - Finisher

Solar Powered Smart Composter

Judges loved the AWS Connection, the Green and ultra low power concept, and using an existing prize from another design challenge!

www.youtube.com/watch

F Yao fyaocn - Finisher

BLE Drum

Judges enjoyed this exploration of timings using FreeRTOS, the Android Studio BLE Mobile App, ModusToolbox / Eclipse IDE and the uses of Capsense and with PWM.

www.youtube.com/watch

Charles Mao @cmelement14 - Finisher

Low Power Sump Well Water Monitoring

Judges enjoyed the use of MQTT Messaging, AWS IoT, clever use of ModusToolbox Templates and a super beefy UPS System!

Stephen Krudlewicz @skrudlewicz - Finisher

BPM Display

Ralph Yamamoto ralphjy - Winner of Low Power IoT Design Challenge
Low Power Secure Entry Project

The judges were blown away buy such an amazing project including Microwave Motion Detection, Object Classification, Facial Recognition and Access that is also Low Power Optimized!

Md. Khairul Alam taifur - Finisher

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

The judges loved that this project was very educational and well written, and athough it is not very low power its self but helps save power, with very good use of MQTT and Cloud connection.

The Sponsored Kit	The Specs
PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) Buy NowBuy Now	• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM • The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio • CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders • PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug • Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Sponsored Kit

The Specs

PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit

(CY8CKIT-062S2-43012)

Buy NowBuy Now

• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM

• The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio

• CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders

• PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug

• Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Judges

Infineon Technical Judge Team
element14 Community Judges element14 Community Team	2117.contentimage_211379.png

Winners Announcement - Low Power IoT Design Challenge

e14phil — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:31:10 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by e14phil on 12/1/2021 3:31:10 PM

Low Power IoT Design Challenge

Join us, in congratulating the winners of the Low Power IoT Design Challenge with Infineon, using the PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit !

Make IoT work in industry, using Infineon’s low-power compute, connectivity, and sensing technology!

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* 11” Apple iPad Pro, 128GB, Wi-Fi Solar Powered Charger
	Runner Up* Apple iPad Mini, 64GB, Wi-Fi Solar Powered Charger
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

11” Apple iPad Pro, 128GB, Wi-Fi
Solar Powered Charger

Runner Up*

Apple iPad Mini, 64GB, Wi-Fi
Solar Powered Charger

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

xxx

Guillermo Perez @amgalbu - Finisher

Object Classifier And Counter

Judges loved the use of ModusToolbox, UBIDOTS, ThingSpeak

Ambrogio Galbusera - Finisher

Ultra Low Power Pallet Tracker

Judges loved the 6 Years of Battery life and the mobile compatible app!

Code is available at
https://github.com/ambrogio-galbusera/pallet_tracker

Ashok R asokfair - Finisher

Solar Powered Smart Composter

Judges loved the AWS Connection, the Green and ultra low power concept, and using an existing prize from another design challenge!

www.youtube.com/watch

F Yao fyaocn - Finisher

BLE Drum

Judges enjoyed this exploration of timings using FreeRTOS, the Android Studio BLE Mobile App, ModusToolbox / Eclipse IDE and the uses of Capsense and with PWM.

www.youtube.com/watch

Charles Mao @cmelement14 - Finisher

Low Power Sump Well Water Monitoring

Judges enjoyed the use of MQTT Messaging, AWS IoT, clever use of ModusToolbox Templates and a super beefy UPS System!

Stephen Krudlewicz @skrudlewicz - Finisher

BPM Display

Ralph Yamamoto ralphjy - Finisher
Low Power Secure Entry Project

The judges were blown away buy such an amazing project including Microwave Motion Detection, Object Classification, Facial Recognition and Access that is also Low Power Optimized!

Md. Khairul Alam taifur - Finisher

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring

The judges loved that this project was very educational and well written, and athough it is not very low power its self but helps save power, with very good use of MQTT and Cloud connection.

The Sponsored Kit	The Specs
PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) Buy NowBuy Now	• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM • The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio • CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders • PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug • Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Sponsored Kit

The Specs

PSoC™ 6S2 + AIROC™ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Pioneer Kit

(CY8CKIT-062S2-43012)

Buy NowBuy Now

• Ultra-low-power PSoC™ 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM

• The Murata 1LV Module hosting the ultra-pow-power Infineon AIROC™ CYW43012 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio

• CapSense capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders

• PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug

• Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package

The Judges

Infineon Technical Judge Team
element14 Community Judges element14 Community Team	2117.contentimage_211379.png

Summer of FPGA - Meet the Challengers and Updated Dates

e14phil — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 02:50:49 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by e14phil on 11/20/2021 2:50:49 AM

Meet the Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design challenge

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Summer of FPGAs Design Challenge, in partnership with Digilent.

Join me in congratulating the Official Challengers of the Summer of FPGA Design Challenge, these challengers will be shipped the Cmod S7 Free of charge.

@walking_off_with_smile

The Cmod S7 is a small, 48‐pin DIP form factor board, built around the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA.

These selected challengers will receive the FREE board to help power up their FPGA project!

What can you build?

Example applications could include:

Image Recognition
Home Scientific Equipment
Signal Processor
Proof of Concept
Processor Off Loading System

To make enough time for the holiday period and delivery of the kits, we have updated the Project Due deadlines.

Updated Competition Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	CLOSED
Application Deadline	CLOSED
Challengers Announced	Now
Build Period	22nd November 2021 - 31st January 2022
Projects Due	31st January 2022
Winners Announced	February 2022
Prizes Shipped	February 2022

The Terms

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date (see above), when projects are due.

Posts which use the FPGA most creatively, are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Summer Of FPGAs - Design Challenge

e14phil — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:35:19 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by e14phil on 11/17/2021 1:35:19 PM

Summer of FPGA Design Challenge

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

The Challenge

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Summer of FPGAs Design Challenge, in partnership with Digilent.

The Cmod S7 is a small, 48‐pin DIP form factor board, built around the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA. The selected 30 challengers will receive the FREE board to help power up their FPGA project!

What can you build?

Example applications could include:

Image Recognition
Home Scientific Equipment
Signal Processor
Proof of Concept
Processor Off Loading System

The Sponsored Kit	The Specs
Digilent Cmod S7 Buy NowBuy Now	It has 32 FPGA digital I/O signals, 2 FPGA analogue input signals, an external power input rail, and ground are routed to 100‐mil‐spaced through‐hole pins. The Cmod S7 is well suited for use with solderless breadboards. At just 0.7" by 3.05" inches, it can be loaded in a standard socket and used in embedded systems. The board also includes a programming ROM, clock source, USB programming and data transfer circuit, power supplies, LEDs, and buttons. Xilinx Spartan‐7 FPGA (XC7S25‐1CSGA225C) 4MB quad‐SPI flash memory Powered from USB or 5V external supply connected to DIP pin 24 USB‐JTAG programming circuitry, USB‐UART bridge Push‐buttons and LEDs Expansion connectors 48‐pin DIP form‐factor header

The Sponsored Kit

The Specs

Digilent Cmod S7

Buy NowBuy Now

The board also includes a programming ROM, clock source, USB programming and data transfer circuit, power supplies, LEDs, and buttons.

Xilinx Spartan‐7 FPGA (XC7S25‐1CSGA225C)
4MB quad‐SPI flash memory
Powered from USB or 5V external supply connected to DIP pin 24
USB‐JTAG programming circuitry, USB‐UART bridge
Push‐buttons and LEDs
Expansion connectors
48‐pin DIP form‐factor header

Be Rewarded on the Community

For entering and taking part in the Design Challenge competition, you'll be rewarded the following badges:

	Apply to join the Design Challenge and receive a badge and points for applying! Make sure you've thought your application through, made it original and your own work. If you are building upon someone else's work, make sure you cite your sources. Direct copies of work will not be accepted.
	Post your first blog! We expect updates on how your Design Challenge project is going, so don't hold back, tell us your thoughts, difficulties, and how you're progressing. Remember that you're assessed based upon your updates, and don't be afraid - other challengers and members are there to help you with any problems you have, and it helps the staff to keep an eye on you!
	5 blogs! Wow, has it really been that long? We hope you'll keep us updated about your project at least once every two weeks, for 10 weeks. We'll not be impressed if you only put a one-liner in there, that's what messages are for. Blogs are to make sure you're giving us all of the juicy detail, trials and tribulations of what's going on, and it keeps everyone honest!
	Even if you're not a challenger in the Design Challenge, we appreciate every member who joins in and gives a helping hand to applicants and members. If your messages are found to be helpful, we want to acknowledge that and reward you!

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
	Grand Prize* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB
	Runner Up* Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250 Digilent Digital Discovery
	Finisher Prize Multicomp Digital Multimeter

Prize

Prize Category

Grand Prize*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro AD3450 USB

Runner Up*

Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP 3250
Digilent Digital Discovery

Finisher Prize

Multicomp Digital Multimeter

*Or local equivalent

The Judges

Digilent Technical Judge Team
element14 Community Judges element14 Community Team

Need help? Comment and read the resources below:

Technical Resources:

Start up Reference:

https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/start

User Manual:

https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/reference-manual?redirect=1

Use Xilinx Analog-to-Digital (XADC) with breadboardable Spartan 7 FPGA module

Use Xilinx Analog-to-Digital (XADC) with breadboardable Spartan 7 FPGA module

Mechanical Drawings (DXF)

https://digilent.com/reference/_media/reference/programmable-logic/cmod-s7/cmod_s7_dimensions.zip

Callout	Description	Callout	Description
1	48-pin DIP form factor head	7	UART status LED
2	FPGA programming DONE LED	8	Shared USB JTAG/UART port
3	Pmod connector	9	Power good LED
4	User push buttons	10	Spartan-7 FPGA
5	User LEDs	11	SPI Flash
6	Use tri-color LED

Example Projects

Software Notes:

The Dates

To make enough time for the holiday period and delivery of the kits, we have updated the Project Due deadlines.

Updated Competition Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Application Period	CLOSED
Application Deadline	CLOSED
Challengers Announced	CLOSED
Build Period	22nd November 2021 - 31st January 2022
Projects Due	31st January 2022
Winners Announced	February 2022
Prizes Shipped	February 2022

The Terms

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 5 blog posts before the closing date (see above), when projects are due.

Posts which use the FPGA most creatively, are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Ready to join the challenge? Then Apply Here!

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../Summer-Of-FPGA-Design-Challenge-Terms-Version-1.pdf

Summer Of FPGA Design Challenge Terms Version 1.pdf

Tags: design_challenge, summer_of_fpga, digilent

Documents

migration.user — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 19:23:15 GMT

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