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Summary: 7-series, a great user experience

pandoramc

I worked with the spartan 6-series to learn about FPGA a time ago, and I faced a strong challenge to use that technology. The ISE OS compatibility had a huge impact on most of the users when Windows 10 was established as a common user interface for c...
- 29 Jul 2022
Interacting with DDR3 SDRAM on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA)

cbohra00627

Introduction: The Arty S7 contains a 256MB DDR3L SDRAM with a 16-bit bus. For proper operation of the memory, a memory controller and physical layer (PHY) interface needs to be included in the FPGA design. The easiest way to accomplish this on t...
- 29 Jul 2022
ePWM, an improvement for less processing

pandoramc

The enhanced Pulse Width Modulation (ePWM) IP creation has only one objective, to reduce the processor time required for direction control in the motor driver. It is based on a 32-bit signed int data type and can handle positive and negative values. ...
- 29 Jul 2022
Microblaze based PID controller with sense coprocessing

pandoramc

For the last step in this journey, the software-based controller is implemented. The most used control is the PID controller defined as, Discretizing the continuous model, we can obtain the following recursive action, Where the Q constants are depe...
- 28 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Experiments with the FPGA polarimeter.

jure

To conclude with the FPGA polarimeter for the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 contest, I have run some experiments, where I explored some optical phenomena in everyday objects. This will hopefully serve as a simple demonstration of what...
- 27 Jul 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 2) - Setting up Vivado 2019.2 and Demo program

rahulkhanna

A quick update on the hardware issue. I tried powering the board and it didn't power up. It turns out the hardware had a short-circuit in production. Short in R220 and R217 had resulted in the failure of a 3.3V supply to the board which was removed. ...
- 27 Jul 2022
"7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA" program. My summary.

javagoza

This is the summary of my participation in the "7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA" program. Listing and categorization of blog posts for the Spartan program I have published 13 blog entries with 11 different projects. I've added a temperature ...
- 27 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot ToF Sensor for Obstacle Avoidance. Vivado Hierarchical Blocks

javagoza

Our Artybot already controls motors via PWM signals and has rotational speed and motor position feedback via magnetic sensors, can "see" colors and has a user interface with switches, buttons, red LEDs, RGB LEDs and an OLED display. In this tutorial ...
- 26 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6, what have I learned

jure

I started working on my project (post 1 and post 2) about a month ago. I had a bit of experience both with Xilinx/Amd Zynq SoCs as well as Altera/Intel Cyclone V SoCs. While working on the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6, I was able to explore the Spa...
- 26 Jul 2022
My little Arty simulator

redcharly

Introduction When I decided to participate in the "7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA" contest, I knew it would take a lot of effort. The board is a really great piece of technology and it was an opportunity for me to get acquainted with F...
- 25 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Challenge - add BLE interface

ralphjy

Since I've been doing a lot of work with BLE this summer, I thought it would be appropriate to add a BLE interface to my Arty S7 project for the challenge. I initially thought about wiring up a BLE UART board that I had available, either a ...
- 25 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 project: FPGA polarimeter part 2

jure

This is a continuation of my previous post. If you haven't seen it yet, I would strongly recommend taking a look, since we'll be continuing from where we left off. Everything mentioned and used in the project is located in my GitHub repo. Previously ...
- 24 Jul 2022
Arty-S7-Rover (experiments)

dramoz

Arty-S7-Rover (experiments) Disclaimer An experiment 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 project was done fo...
- 24 Jul 2022
Arty-S7-Rover (summary)

dramoz

Arty-S7-Rover (summary) Disclaimer Write a summary blog, 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 project was done for the 7 Ways t...
- 24 Jul 2022
Arty-S7-Rover (base architecture)

dramoz

Arty-S7-Rover (base architecture) Disclaimer Build a 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 project was...
- 24 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 The Spartan-6 Migration Path Game. Learning the Differences Between Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs

javagoza

This post features a game activity to learn more about the differences between AMD Xilinx Spartan-6 and AMD Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGAs with the help of the Emubot sequencing robot. This post is part 10 of my contribution to the "7 Ways to Leave Your...
- 23 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA: Differences between the Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGAs

navadeepganeshu

What's all this spartan? Xilinx offers a comprehensive multi-node portfolio of to address requirements across a wide set of applications. From a state-of-the art, high-performance networking application requiring the highest capacity, bandwidth,...
- 23 Jul 2022
Implementing Microblaze based Microcontroller on Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA)

cbohra00627

Introduction:In this blog we will work with the MicroBlaze Processor IP block, build a basic microcontroller using it and deploy it on the board. The MicroBlaze is a soft microprocessor core designed for Xilinx FPGAs. I have followed the Arty S7 Work...
- 20 Jul 2022
Arty S7 - Imaging System Part 3: Adding a physical HDMI port to Arty S7

saadtiwana_int

In the previous blog post, we built a HDMI source (output) controller inside our Spartan-7 FPGA and configured it using the Microblaze processor. In this post we will add a physical HDMI output to our board, since the Arty-S7 does not have a HD...
- 20 Jul 2022
Spartan-6 vs Spartan-7

vinayyn

Spartan-6 vs Spartan-7 while upgrading the FPGA Based system we need to know the parameter's compatibility with the newer version. in this blog, I am comparing spartan 6 with spartan 7. The below comparison shows the main features we need to know...
- 20 Jul 2022
Adding a Sensor to Arty S7, a continuous way to met requirements

pandoramc

Table of Contents Discontinued and Complex Button Own Quadrature Encoder Interface (QEI) Signal conditioning Data presentation Links: Discontinued and Complex Button An Interesting sensor is a touch panel, but for this demo, I will use it in a ve...
- 20 Jul 2022
Sipeed Lichee Tang Nano 4K Gowin FPGA - Board review.

maxpowerr

1. Introduction While browsing the Internet, I came across one interesting FPGA board. The board has a GW1NSR-LV4C FPGA chip from the Chinese company GoWin Semiconductor Corp, this company was founded in 2014. The headquarters and main developme...
- 19 Jul 2022
Differences Between The Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGA's

meera_hussien

Differences Between The Spartan-6 and Spartan-7 FPGA's Introduction Since the first time, Spartan-6 was introduced about 13 years ago, not only has the semiconductor technology vastly evolved, the FPGA development tools have come a long way as w...
- 19 Jul 2022
Arty S7 - Imaging System Part 2: Building HDMI source controller

saadtiwana_int

In this blog post, we will add HDMI video output to our Arty S7. We will build upon the basic microblaze system that we constructed in the previous blog post. The first thing you might be wondering is how to get a physical HDMI output from the Arty-S...
- 19 Jul 2022
Getting Started with Arty S7-50 (7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 FPGA)

cbohra00627

Introduction:In this blog, I will walk through the steps to create our first project on the Arty S7-50 FPGA board. I received this board from E14 for the 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 program. In this blog, I will do the first start of the board and...
- 19 Jul 2022