Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 1

RE: Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 1

mcb1 — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 03:38:17 GMT

Always looked at FPGA's and decided that they are another thing I should learn ... but what do I sacrifice to do it.

So I'll be following this with some interest ... even if it is for a rainy day.

I like the other advice that is coming. It helps build a bigger picture of how best to use the device in a real world situation.

Mark

RE: Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 1

michaelkellett — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 13:14:40 GMT

You haven't got it quite right re. the boot up process:

Your board has a small (2k) I2C EEPROM but this is far too tiny to store the boot up image for the FPGA - it has as an ECPS64 8Mbyte Flash chip for that. You are right that this FPGA (like many others) is RAM based so needs to copy the image from somewhere non volatile on power up. I don't know what to call the code like thing that FPGAs have so I call it an image so as not to mix it up with programmes for micros.

I try not to talk about writing software for FPGAs - after all VHDL and Verilog are both officially hardware description languages but it does sound a bit pompous to say I spent my morning describing hardware !

Do you have a project in mind for the Nano ?

RE: Entering The World Of FPGA's with a DEO-NANO P0082 - Part 1

DAB — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:29:28 GMT

Nice intro.

I look forward to seeing your experience with the board.

I am very curious to see how easy the software is to use from a newbie perspective.

Thanks

DAB