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Choices of Design and Build one FPGA Project on Digilent Arty-S7

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Migration from the Spartan-6 to the Spartan-7 FPGAs brings about improvements, but it would be interesting to find out which roadmap is preferable by developers. Here is the choices,

  • Design Baremetal with simple Flip-Flops in  Block Design in VIvado

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  • Design Baremetal with IP integrator in Vivado

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  • Design Baremetal with Verilog , System Verilog or VHDL in Vivado

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  • Designing with MicroBlaze only in Vivado

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  • Desiging with C++ code in Vitis 

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Refer the the blog Build a project with the Arty S7-The Blinky Project - Blog - FPGA - element14 Community  for several proposed choices for details. 

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  • My opinion is that you should learn the advantages and disadvantages of each approach (implementing in programmable logic versus handling via soft processor). Both are different tools and will be useful in different scenarious. In many cases, a combination of the two will be the best way to go. Some things are just better handled in Programmable logic (e.g. a Quadrature decoder), while for some other things it just makes more sense to use the soft processor (talking to I2C sensors, etc). Learn both and mix n match! 

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  • My opinion is that you should learn the advantages and disadvantages of each approach (implementing in programmable logic versus handling via soft processor). Both are different tools and will be useful in different scenarious. In many cases, a combination of the two will be the best way to go. Some things are just better handled in Programmable logic (e.g. a Quadrature decoder), while for some other things it just makes more sense to use the soft processor (talking to I2C sensors, etc). Learn both and mix n match! 

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