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Blog 1: Getting Started with FPGAs using VHDL

rsjawale24

Hello everyone, I'm among the selected challengers for the 7 ways to leave your Spartan-6 design challenge. Firstly I would like to thank the e14 community for providing me with the Arty S7 FPGA board. This will be my first FPGA board, having one of ...
- 18 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Ends on August 1st. Then the Judging Begins

rscasny

Just a reminder to everyone who is participating in the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Program. August 1st is the deadline for any posting of blogs or projects or other activities. The program has 7 activities where the participant earns points. The ...
- 18 Jul 2022
Earn up to 15 points by creating a Final Blog - 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6

rscasny

The 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 program teaches you about the migration from the Spartan-6 to the Spartan-7 FPGAs, by presenting multiple activities you may engage in. One of those activities is using the Arty S7 to write a final blog on what you ...
- 18 Jul 2022
Earn up to 50 points by Creating an Experiment - 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6

rscasny

The 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 program teaches you about the migration from the Spartan-6 to the Spartan-7 FPGAs, by presenting multiple activities you may engage in. One of those activities is using the Arty S7 to create an experiment and blog a...
- 18 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 - Earn 25 points by asking a question or starting a forum discussion

rscasny

The 7 Ways to Leave your Spartan-6 program teaches you about the migration from the Spartan-6 to the Spartan-7 FPGAs, by presenting multiple activities you may engage in. One of those activities is "asking a question or starting a discussion&quo...
- 18 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 project: FPGA polarimeter part 1

jure

Introduction This is the first blog about my project for the 7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6. Here we'll look at how I have put everything together and run a simple test to see if everything is working. The topic of making a polarimeter might see...
- 17 Jul 2022
Getting Started with Timer Project

yesha98

The Timer Project I'm just getting started with the design for the Spartan-7 project. Long back, I had been using the USB104-A7 Artix-7 FPGA development board, in which the block design required defining constraints file even for system reset. ...
- 17 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot - Color sensing and line follower

javagoza

In this post we will add a Pmod COLOR sensor to our robot developed on the AMD-Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA of the Digilent Arty S7 board. That sensor will allow the robot to detect colors in its vicinity and we will try to make a simple line...
- 17 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6: my posts

Jan Cumps

The "7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6" program sets out a set of duties. It's not going to be easy for the judges to map blogs to tasks. I've summarised mine. x Activity 1-- Write a blog on the differences between the Spartan-6 and Spar...
- 14 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot becomes Emubot, an educational robot for young children

javagoza

In this post I will introduce the Emubot project. Emubot is a simplified Logo turtle developed on the AMD-Xilinx Spartan-7 FPGA of the Digilent Arty S7 board. This simplified Logo turtle protoype with a Pmod OLED display module is aimed at ...
- 13 Jul 2022
7 Ways to Leave Your Spartan-6 Challenge - Project Platform

ralphjy

I'm a bit late getting started, so I thought that I should configure a basic platform for my project. The Arty S7 already has quite an array of user IO - 4 LEDs, 4 switches, 4 pushbuttons, and 2 RGD LEDs, so I think that there's more th...
- 12 Jul 2022
Recreate the Arty-S7 Out of Box design - part 2: MicroBlaze Firmware rebuild

Jan Cumps

This is part 2 of the instructions to build the Arty-S7 Out-of-box experience from source. In part 1, I showed how to get the Vivado project created, and regenerate the FPGA design. That exercise delivers the full hardware design, but not the firmwar...
- 11 Jul 2022
Spartan 6 vs. Spartan 7 - A design philosophy approach.

yesha98

The design-based approach to differentiate Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 I had been an FPGA enthusiast from the very beginning days. Here are some technical details about the Spartan-6 FPGA: Since I'm a bit late to post this, I shall take a little bit diff...
- 11 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot - Bot Application Framework

javagoza

In this post I describe the Bot Application Framework that I have prepared for the Digilent Arty S7 based bot and provides an overview of the Arty S7 Bot Application Framework, its architecture, components, and usage model. This post is part 7 o...
- 11 Jul 2022
Spartan 6 and 7, a hobbyist’s perspective.

jure

In past weeks many people have posted various blogs describing the differences between the Xilinx Spartan 6 and 7 series of FPGAs. Since I have no professional background in FPGA development or electronics, I would like to write about what I have not...
- 10 Jul 2022
Arty S7 - Imaging System Part 1: Microblaze Hello world

saadtiwana_int

For the 7 ways to leave your Spartan-6 FPGA program, I wanted to explore the use of Spartan-7 in an imaging system. I have some experience working with video streams on Zynq-7000 FPGAs (which I love!), but I never tried the same on Spa...
- 10 Jul 2022
Recreate the Arty-S7 Out of Box design - part 1: Hardware Design

Jan Cumps

The Arty-S7 resource page has an archive of the Out-of-Box (OoB) Vivado project that's loaded in the Flash of your new board. Each time you power it on, this design will be loaded. When you load your own bitfile to Flash, the OoB is overwri...
- 8 Jul 2022
Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1) - Introduction

rahulkhanna

Introduction Hello everyone, I'll be writing a step-by-step tutorial on building a basic line follower robot with the Arty S7. Reasons to switch from Spartan-6 to Spartan-7 FPGAs #1 Build a project with the Arty S7 - Line Follower Robot (Part 1)...
- 7 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot How to Store MicroBlaze Program in the Quad-SPI Flash from Vivado

javagoza

We want our Artybot to be autonomous. Until now every time we turned off the Arty S7 50 board we lost the program loaded in the board's RAM. This guide will show you how to store a Microblaze program in the SPI Flash on your Arty S7 50 device. Storin...
- 6 Jul 2022
online lesson: clock domain crossing with a VHDL frequency counter - part 1: simulation in Vivado

Jan Cumps

When your design has more than a single clock, you'll have to deal with cross-clock-domain situations. In my search for good online trainings, I bumped on this example from SURF-VHDL: How to compute the frequency of a clock. In this example, you have...
- 5 Jul 2022
Exploring 7 Series MIG Part – 2

hrishi98

Exploring 7 Series MIG Part – 2 Hello, in the previous blog we explored how to use DDR present on the Arty S7 board and made sure it is working fine by running Memory Tests bare-metal application using SDK. The previous example made...
- 3 Jul 2022
Arty S7 50 ArtyBot Custom AXI4 Lite IP Peripheral for Sensing Motor Rotational Speed

javagoza

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a custom AXI4 Lite IP Peripheral implementing a tachometer. We will add two quadrature encoders with Hall effect sensors to the mini plastic gear motors of the ArtyBot. The tachometer will enable...
- 28 Jun 2022
Arty: talk to SPI EEPROM - part 2b: EEPROM Read

Jan Cumps

Follow up of 2a: EEPROM State Machine and Initialise. In this post, I read a value from an address in the EEPROM. The slide switches on the Arty define what address to read. The state machine from the previous post already reserved a state ...
- 26 Jun 2022
Vivado: how to override generic values

Jan Cumps

In HDL languages, you can define generics. These are values that are assumed by default, but can be overridden. In VHDL, this may look like this: ENTITY spi_master IS GENERIC( data_length : INTEGER := 16); --data length in bits PORT( ...
- 25 Jun 2022
Arty: talk to SPI EEPROM - part 2a: EEPROM State Machine and Initialise

Jan Cumps

The 25LC256 SPI EEPROM needs some management, if you plan to write data to it. It's described in this app note. At startup, it's read-only. You need to enable write functionality and remove write protect. Once that's done, you can use the write funct...
- 25 Jun 2022