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The Winners of the 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 FPGA Competition

rscasny

We have completed the 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 FPGA Competition, sponsored by AMD Xilinx. Overall, we had 26 challengers, with 1 unsponsored challenger. Our judges have read all the blogs and scored them. In this blog, we will announce the Gran...
- 22 Aug 2022
SystemVerilog Study Notes. Hex-Digit to Seven-Segment LED Decoder RTL Combinational Circuit

javagoza

RTL Combinational Circuit - Design Examples - Hex-Digit to Seven-Segment LED Decoder RTL Combinational Circuit We have been reviewing the main constructs and operators for designing combinational logic circuits with the SystemVerilog HDL. Let's apply...
- 22 Aug 2022
SystemVerilog Study Notes. RTL Combinational Circuit - Concurrent and Control Constructs

javagoza

In the previous chapter we reviewed some of the main SystemVerilog operators that allow us to describe the operation of combinational logic circuits. In this chapter we will review some of the SystemVerilog constructs that allow us to describe parts ...
- 21 Aug 2022
SystemVerilog Study Notes. RTL Combinational Circuit Operators

javagoza

I continue my series of notes on SystemVerilog as I learn. In this case I dedicate the study notes to Verilog operators as an introduction to combinational circuits. I'll cover always blocks and other routing constructs in a later blog. Table of Con...
- 17 Aug 2022
SystemVerilog Study Notes. Gate-Level Combinational Circuit

javagoza

I am learning SystemVerilog HDL. I started reading the book FPGA Prototyping By SystemVerilog Examples. These are my study notes and what I am learning about SystemVerilog. My idea is to do exercises with the Digilent Arty S7 50 board...
- 15 Aug 2022
Stereo Calibration for the Dual Camera Mezzanine

albertabeef

Introduction This blog post provides details on how to perform stereo calibration for the Ultra96-V2 development board with Dual-Camera Mezzanine. Getting Started with the pre-built image If you want to re-build the vivado 2021.2 and pe...
- 10 Aug 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 7) - Summary

rahulkhanna

Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1 Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1) - Introduction Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 2) - Setting up Vivado 2019.2 and Demo...
- 5 Aug 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 6) - Adding sensors to the LFR

rahulkhanna

Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1 Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1) - Introduction Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 2) - Setting up Vivado 2019.2 and Dem...
- 5 Aug 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 5) - Project Demo

rahulkhanna

Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1 Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1) - Introduction Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 2) - Setting up Vivado 2019.2 and Demo...
- 5 Aug 2022
Misaz’s Spartan 7 Competition Summary Blog

misaz

Hello everyone. Today it is deadline of 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA. Today I completed quiz (with one mistake made) and post blog post about my project. My performance in this competition is not as good as I originally expected. It was mainly...
- 5 Aug 2022
Blog 3: Interfacing with FPGAs - LEDs, switches, 7 segment displays

rsjawale24

In my last two blogs, I talked only about VHDL codes and the implementation of digital logic design in Vivado. In this blog, I will be working on the hardware aspects. I received the Arty-S7 board from e14 for the Spartan_Migration challenge. I will...
- 5 Aug 2022
RC6 cipher implemented in Verilog

misaz

Hello everyone. I welcome you to this blog post describing my project as part of 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA contest. In this blog post I will describe my core project as part of this competition. As part of this competition I originally prom...
- 5 Aug 2022
Summary for Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA : Summary)

cbohra00627

FPGA was a completely new thing to me before participating in this program. I learned a lot of things while writing blogs for this program. The list of all the blogs is given below: Spartan-6 VS Spartan-7 (Comparison) Getting Started with Arty S7-50...
- 5 Aug 2022
Reducing the time to send data over UartLite on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA : Experiment)

cbohra00627

Introduction:In my project, I am sending the blurred image to my PC over uartlite. I had to put some delay (50 us) between sending consecutive data packets. Due to the large size of the image, it takes around 8-9 mins to transfer the image.Maybe redu...
- 5 Aug 2022
Arty-S7-Rover (sensor+actuator)

dramoz

Arty-S7-Rover (sensor+actuator) Disclaimer Add a sensor to your project with the Arty S7, 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA challenge. The Arty-S7-Rover is a small functional autonomous vehicle based on the Digilent Arty S7-50 board. The ...
- 5 Aug 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 4) - Hardware Assembly

rahulkhanna

Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1 Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1) - Introduction Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 2) - Setting up Vivado 2019.2 and Demo...
- 5 Aug 2022
Image Processing (Box Blur) with multiple box sizes (using IR sensor with XADC) on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA : Adding a sensor)

cbohra00627

Introduction:In my previous blog, I learned how to use the XADC block in my design. I am thinking of using the XADC alongwith the IR sensor that I used in that blog in my Image Processing project.I will use this IR sensor to toggle between various bo...
- 5 Aug 2022
Audio processing on Arty-S7

manihatn

Introduction As part of the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA roadtest, I have been exploring sensors that can be connected to the Arty-S7 for audio applications. For the current project, I am focussing on the following sensors Pmod I2S2 - Used to...
- 5 Aug 2022
Arty S7 50 VGA Thermal Imaging Camera

javagoza

In this post we describe how to build a low resolution thermal imaging camera with VGA output. The solution is based on the Melexis MLX90640 IR Array, the Digilent's PmodVGA module, and the AMD-Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA of the Digilent Arty S7 ...
- 4 Aug 2022
Blog 2: Getting Started with FPGAs - Digital Logic Design with FPGAs

rsjawale24

In my last blog on FPGAs, as a part of the 7 ways to Leave your Spartan-6 contest, I published an introductory blog on getting started with FPGAs and VHDL. In the 2nd blog, I will discuss digital logic design using FPGAs. Here, I will cover the follo...
- 4 Aug 2022
Working with XADC on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA)

cbohra00627

Introduction:The Arty S7 board comes with an on board ADC. The XADC core within the Spartan-7 is a dual channel 12-bit analog-to-digital converter capable of operating at 1 MSPS. The analog pins can be used to read analog values. I have a IR sensor w...
- 4 Aug 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Challenge - Summary

ralphjy

List of Challenge Activity Blogs Blog 1: Getting Started Blog 2: Comparing the Differences Between Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs Blog 3: Build a Project Platform Blog 4: Add BLE Interface (add sensor) Blog 5: Experiment with XADC Blog ...
- 4 Aug 2022
Image Processing (Box Blur) on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA : Project)

cbohra00627

Introduction:After learning about various things that can be done on Arty S7-50, I think I am now ready to put all my learnings together in one project.In this blog, I will try to implement a basic image processing algorithm (blurring an image) on th...
- 3 Aug 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Challenge - external VpVn Differential Input working with XADC

ralphjy

Well, my challenging week is continuing. I'm not sure whether it is bad luck, faulty hardware, or just unfortunate coincidences. I decided to take a look at the problem that I was having with the external inputs to the XADC last night.&nbsp...
- 3 Aug 2022
Getting started with the ARTY-S7 and the VGA PMOD expansion module.

jugal

Introduction: Greetings everyone! Over the next few days I will be posting blogs describing my project entry for the 7 Ways to leave your Spartan-6 challenge. So what is my project? It is a Mandelbrot set "explorer" built around the Arty S7 FPGA boa...
- 2 Aug 2022