Guide for absolute beginner?

Hi everyone,

I am a complete beginner to embedded programming and fpga design. I recently bought the zuboard and after completing the training I am unsure of what to do. My end project for now is to create an AI accelerator with the board, although I am unsure how to continue. Can you give advice/links to reading, and how to get started with the ARM programming, which xilinx libraries to read, and how to write opencl code for the board. I couldnt find much documentation, with examples on programming.

EDIT: I have taken courses in digital design and know how to represent circuits in HDL (systemVerilog)

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0 dougw over 2 years ago

/learn/events/c/e/1614?pifragment-7033=3

https://www.hackster.io/AlbertaBeef/introducing-zuboard-for-accelerated-edge-ai-a42c21
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0 bidrohini over 2 years ago

This may help too: www.youtube.com/watch
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0 shabaz over 2 years ago

"I am a complete beginner to embedded programming and fpga design."

That's two large disciplines. At what level do you really wish to start? Did you not do any programming or HDL? If you're truly starting from scratch, this is a near-impossible task without a course of some sort, even if it's just for a year or two.
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0 rad_bcit over 2 years ago

https://www.mathworks.com/videos/series/getting-started-with-the-avnet-zuboard.html?s_tid=srchtitle_zuboard_2

Includes "Set Up a Project | Getting Started with the Avnet ZUBoard"
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0 mabbasest over 2 years ago in reply to shabaz

I want to get into fpga design specifcally. the goal for my project (i know its lofty) is to run a small subset of opencl on the arm cores, with matrix multiplies being handled by the programmable logic. So in a sense, my goal is that I should be able to plug my device into my computer, send it some opencl kernels over ethernet/usb and for it to compute them and return them to me, with matrix multiplication to be handled by the PL. my first step is to do all the opencl on the arm cores, and then try to develop matrix multipliers on the PL
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0 shabaz over 2 years ago in reply to mabbasest

I don't quite see how you're going to manage this if you're a complete beginner. Where to start?!

You might want to investigate how you'll get the workload to the device (you mention Ethernet/USB but surely that will be too slow). Also what protocol are you planning to use? By the way, the PS already contains hardware-accelerated matrix multiplication (see ARM NEON). If you want to implement it yourself, you may need a course in a HDL, but if you're a complete beginner then you'll also need a course in digital design.
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0 rajivbishwokarma over 2 years ago

I am doing something similar. It's more of a matrix-vector multiplier. I have only implemented the Verilog side of project and will implement the data send receive pipeline in near future, but if you want to take a look, here's the link: rajivbishwokarma/matrix_vector_multiplier (github.com)

Edit: I won't be sending data through Ethernet/USB though, I will only be using the PS and the PL.
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0 mabbasest over 2 years ago in reply to shabaz

I should have been more specific. I have taken courses in digital design and know how to represent circuits in HDL (systemVerilog)
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