XILINX FPGA project

[Davo]

I am required to design and demonastrate a project incorporating the XILINX
Field Programmable Gate Array Board already assembled by Digilent Inc. The
circuit will require some extra components other than the XILINK chip but as
our knowledge is not in the advanced stages of PLA's yet, the project will
not need to be overly complex. Any ideas, pointers or common industry
practice for implementing the use of a FPGA to utilize and demonstrate its
benefits would be welcomed - just a point in the right direction.....

Regards

Dave

 

[Cees Keyer]

I am required to design and demonastrate a project incorporating the XILINX
Field Programmable Gate Array Board already assembled by Digilent Inc. The
circuit will require some extra components other than the XILINK chip but as
our knowledge is not in the advanced stages of PLA's yet, the project will
not need to be overly complex. Any ideas, pointers or common industry
practice for implementing the use of a FPGA to utilize and demonstrate its
benefits would be welcomed - just a point in the right direction.....

Regards

Dave

Dave,
One of our students did design, quite a lkong time ago btw, a set of
traffic lights. Het took two crossing roads with cycle paths and made a
very simple traffic light construction with 3 leds (green yellow and red
for the traffic lights and a push button for car indication or cycle
indication.

Maybe this helps.
Cees.

 

[Keith R. Williams]

I am required to design and demonastrate a project incorporating the XILINX
Field Programmable Gate Array Board already assembled by Digilent Inc. The
circuit will require some extra components other than the XILINK chip but as
our knowledge is not in the advanced stages of PLA's yet, the project will
not need to be overly complex. Any ideas, pointers or common industry
practice for implementing the use of a FPGA to utilize and demonstrate its
benefits would be welcomed - just a point in the right direction.....

Try: comp.arch.fpga -- FPGA newsgroup
comp.lang.vhdl -- VHDL newsgroup
http://www.optimagic.com/ -- Programmable logic jump station
http://www.opencores.org/ -- Open source hardware

 

[Alex Gibson]

Which Australian uni are you at ?

Well for starters look at the xilinx reference designs for the chip your board is using.
Digilent D2E board ?

Looked at the digilent reference design on their webpage for the board your getting ?

also opencores.org (maybe a bit advanced ?)

also the examples projects that come with the xilinx webpack.



http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_product.jsp?title=cpldsolutions_cpldlearn_page
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_product.jsp?title=cpldsolutions_cpldstart_page
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_product.jsp?title=reference_designs
http://www.xilinx.com/publications/products/cpld/logic_handbook.pdf
http://www.xilinx.com/apps/epld.htm app notes

http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_product.jsp?title=reference_designs


free coolrunner2 reference cd
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_entry2.jsp?sMode=login&group=cool2_literature

http://www.opencores.org/projects/
http://www.opencores.org/projects/usb/
http://www.opencores.org/projects/usb1_funct/

for another free book
http://www.xess.com/pragmatic-2_1.html
http://www.xess.com/ho03000.html#Examples
http://www.xess.com/ho07000.html


www.xess.com (some quite nice projects)

soft microprocessor
http://www.xilinx.com/ipcenter/processor_central/picoblaze/member/
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_landingpage.jsp?title=Processor+Central
http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_product.jsp?title=third_party
http://www.fpgacpu.org/
www.opencores.org/projects including a pic , 8051 , avr etc

vhdl
http://www.vhdl.org/comp.lang.vhdl/ faq


for embedded stuff

others
http://www.fpga4fun.com/
http://tutor.al-williams.com/

also search with google


Alex Gibson

a few other links I forgot to add
http://www.burched.biz/resources.html
http://www.burched.biz/links.html
http://www.birdcomputer.ca/
http://zxgate.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fpgaarcade.com/
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotics/fpga/index.html
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/ALTERA/altera.htm
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~barry/CSE261/

http://xup.msu.edu/ xilinx university program website