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

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fyaocn over 3 years ago

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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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago +8
    I have an opinion : When learning FPGA, I'd advise not to go the MicroBlaze and C++ way. Because then you're back in the microcontroller world and the usual programming languages. You don't learn the…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 3 years ago in reply to saadtiwana_int +7
    Cost, power, complexity ! (The comment was made in a thread based on Spartan6/7 which are being pushed as "entry level" FPGAs) The ARM cores in the Zynq are application processors not micro controllers…
  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 3 years ago in reply to michaelkellett +5
    What I had envisioned here was a learning path that takes someone with microcontroller experience on say an Arduino Uno and give then an alternative route into FPGA by building on what they already know…
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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago

    I have an opinion Slight smile :

    When learning FPGA, I'd advise not to go the MicroBlaze and C++ way. Because then you're back in the microcontroller world and the usual programming languages. You don't learn the digital design.

    I think the soft controllers are definitely valuable in an FPGA project. But if the first step you do when learning FPGA is to select a MicroBlaze, then switch to Vitis to build C programs, you're not advancing FPGA skills.

    end of opinion Wink.

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    Andrew J over 3 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I have to agree.  For my first project I specifically went the way you suggested when in fact it was calling out for a microprocessor based approach.  It’s a lot more interesting as well.

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    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew J

    Now that I have an Arty board too, I'll have to follow my own opinion. Not my strongest point Slight smile. 

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    Jan Cumps over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew J

    Now that I have an Arty board too, I'll have to follow my own opinion. Not my strongest point Slight smile. 

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