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  • Author Author: genebren
  • Date Created: 8 Feb 2018 12:03 AM Date Created
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Some tutorials from an earlier time...

genebren
genebren
8 Feb 2018

A little more than 10 years ago, I did some blogging on another site on various embedded topics.  I hope to redo some of these posts or further expand on some of the topics.  Given some of the recent conversations about FPGAs I thought I might link to some of these older post until I am setup to start re-writing them.

 

On the topic of VHDL, I generated so tutorials based on some examples of some of the work that I was doing on a couple of different projects/products:

 

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/24.php - VHDL tutorial

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/31.php- VHDL tutorial - part 2 - testbench

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/43.php  - VHDL tutorial - combining clocked and sequential logic

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/54.php  - VHDL tutorial - Creating a hierarchical design

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/85.php - VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 1 - Hardware

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/87.php - VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 2 - VHDL coding

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/89.php  - VHDL tutorial - A practical example - part 3 - VHDL testbench

 

This article was about using a tiny microcontroller to replace some simple logic in a earlier design:

https://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/94.php - Deeply embedded design example - Logic replacement

 

Enjoy!

Gene

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  • fmilburn
    fmilburn over 7 years ago +5
    Hi Gene, I had a look at some of the links and they are nicely done. I'm glad to hear you will be updating them. I keep thinking I will get around to looking at FPGAs and maybe this time I will :-) Fr…
  • genebren
    genebren over 7 years ago in reply to fmilburn +5
    Frank, Thank you for the kind words. If FPGAs are too big or to scary, there are always CPLDs, which is many cases are the better choice when you want to keep cost and/or package size down. A CPLD running…
  • three-phase
    three-phase over 7 years ago +3
    Very good series of blogs with each post building on the one before it. Kind regards
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    three-phase over 7 years ago

    Very good series of blogs with each post building on the one before it.

     

    Kind regards

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    three-phase over 7 years ago

    Very good series of blogs with each post building on the one before it.

     

    Kind regards

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    genebren over 7 years ago in reply to three-phase

    Thanks three-phase.  I appreciate your kind words.

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