Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000!

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by Andrew J

Andrew J — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:52:19 GMT

Hi Tariq,

I'm confused by the time: is this 5pm Indian time (12:30pm British Summer Time) or is it 5pm GMT? Europe and Dublin are in different time zones and differ by 1 hour.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by altishchenko

altishchenko — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:40:17 GMT

Good afternoon!

Apart from the board itself, what are the software requirements to follow the webinar? What should be pre-installed in advance and what version?

Cheers,

Alex

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by raffaeler

raffaeler — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:03:04 GMT

Hello,

the timing is very confusing:

- The calendar I downloaded says the event is on May 27 (tomorrow)

- This same web page says it is on May 30

- The timer on this same page says the event will be in 1 Month and 4 Days from now.

When is the event happening?

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by kmikemoo

kmikemoo — Fri, 28 May 2021 01:10:15 GMT

While this has been moved to July 14th, I'm still excited to see it. THANK YOU for having it on a Wednesday!

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by weiwei2

weiwei2 — Fri, 28 May 2021 15:44:23 GMT

i am wondering what software is used to program the FPGA

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by beacon_dave

beacon_dave — Sun, 30 May 2021 15:49:05 GMT

Is anyone using this board primarily for its ability to drive an HDMI display out of the box ? Perhaps you are working on a physical computing project and have a need to be able to output to an off-the-shelf video display that is a little bit bigger than you would normally find with an Arduino TFT or OLED display shield but without the desire to move up to a single board computer in order to do so.

It looks like this MKR Vidor 4000 board could perform this task quite well without the need to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with HDL. Although it sounds like you could increase the resolution further if you did.

Draw Arduino Logo example

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/LibraryExamples/VidorDrawLogo

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by beacon_dave

beacon_dave — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:04:53 GMT

An interview with Dario a couple of years ago when the MKR Vidor 4000 was launched. May be of interest.

Arduino at Electronica 2018 - YouTube

I recall seeing another interview which discussed some of the capabilities of the HDMI output using the FPGA but I can't seem to find it now.

[found it... Recorded Live Stream: Arduino MKR VIDOR 4000 - ... | element14 | Arduino ]

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by dubbie

dubbie — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:24:21 GMT

I'm looking forward to this Workshop. Hopefully it will give a good overview of the process and, that the process is not too complicated.

Dubbie

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by dbennau

dbennau — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 02:02:56 GMT

Assuming you are happy to work at this level, is Quartus Prime Lite edition compatible with the Cyclone 10 FPGA on this device?

David

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by raffaeler

raffaeler — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:26:12 GMT

This thread demonstrates that Intel is doing its best to NOT attract developers into the FPGA world.

I bought the Vidor board and still struggling in understanding what's the best way to use it, outside the built-in demos (even if I do have from an electronic background)

Unless you are already familiar with FPGAs there are a lot of stoppers:

- demo board prices (hard to choose if you have no idea what you can do with them and what is the difficulty level)

- it's not clear (at least to me) what are the limitation of the quartus lite software

- the library ecosystem is fragmented, not easy to understand which library has additional costs and how to choose them

- difficulties to transition from a demo board to a custom made PCB without getting crazy with power lines

The overlall impression is that starters are just going to spend a lot of money, without any idea of the potential best results.

From the Arduino perspective, I am eager to participate to this seminar and my biggest question is how to structure a new project that I can easily iterate on, without having to go mad.

Love the KISS design principle and look forward to see in using Arduino+FPGA.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by raffaeler

raffaeler — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:59:36 GMT

I finally found a very nice video on Quartus Prime Lite software.

It's for starters but it explores a lot of functions that I didn't understand before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxkNilK__yE

As far as I understand this should be applicable to the Arduino board as well.

So another question for the speaker is: where can I find the Vidor 4000 board mappings for Quartus?

HTH

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by ischonfeld

ischonfeld — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:05:59 GMT

During the webinar, can you discuss how debugging a FPGA is different from debugging code for a MCU? I would expect it to be more like debugging digital logic, except that the circuitry is buried within the device and not accessible with probes.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by weiwei2

weiwei2 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:07:05 GMT

attended the session, lots of quartus fpga stuff....need to relook at the recording again to understand it. but believe this FPGA + arduino is a good combination for fast electronics with easier development

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by julianms

julianms — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:08:10 GMT

Hi,

tried to view the recorder stream but the webpage says the even have ended.

where I can view this webinar?

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by Andrew J

Andrew J — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:51:32 GMT

Do you see the blue button at the top of this page with "View Event Recording"? That does work when I tried it now, but when I came back to this page it had disappeared and I had to refresh. Otherwise, no idea why that button doesn't appear for you.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by dang74

dang74 — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:17:02 GMT

One of the things I would be most interested in is incorporating my own IP into the FPGA and be able to interact with it from the microcontroller.

This link appears to give some insights into this from the FPGA side of things... though it's very brief and it's possible some pieces of the puzzle are still missing.

I've linked it below anyway in case it's of help to someone that is interested in developing their own custom IP for use on the board.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/VidorQuartusVHDL

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by meera_hussien

meera_hussien — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 22:27:00 GMT

Hi tariq.ahmad ,

Good day. Any updates for the giveaway boards?

Thank you.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by tariq.ahmad

tariq.ahmad — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:01:47 GMT

Congratulations to mayermakes , Andrew J , embeddedguy , meera_hussien , and nhamg . You are the winners of the MKR VIDOR 4000s!

We will be posting the Q&A from this workshop in the near future.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by kmikemoo

kmikemoo — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:15:28 GMT

Congratulations to the VIDOR winners! I hope we get to see some of the amazing things you do with these.

re: Arduino Workshop: Freedom of FPGA with MKR VIDOR 4000! by embeddedguy

embeddedguy — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 08:30:41 GMT

I received the board along with some stickers and an element14 toy today. Will be posting reviews of the board