Archive for the FPGA Category

FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part III

By on May 11, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA.

  Hello everybody!
 As promissed a century ago, in this post I’ll show how to assign pins to our FPGA hello world, aka Led blink, how to generate our bitstream and how to program our FPGA. So let’s do it! Continue reading FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part III

FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part II

By on May 11, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA.

Hello!
In this post I’ll show you how to simulate our hello world design.
In ISE, in Design tab, select View Simulation as in the image below

FPGA hello world – Led blink

By on January 16, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA, VHDL. | 1 Comment

Hello guys!
Let’s do our first design using the demo board.

I’ll explain step-by-step how to create a new project, develop our code and synthesize it using ISE 13.3 installed in the last post. Continue reading FPGA hello world – Led blink

Installing ISE 13.3 webpack in Ubuntu

By on January 7, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA, tools.

Hello everybody,
Today I’ll show you how to install ISE 13.3 webpack. As I’m a linux user, I’ll install it in Ubuntu Oneiric. Continue reading Installing ISE 13.3 webpack in Ubuntu

Spartan 3E demo board

By on October 2, 2011
This entry is filed under FPGA, tools.

Hello people,
As I said, I’m studying FPGA/VHDL and for that I have a spartan 3E demo board from Digilent. It’s a very nice demo board and it has everything that it takes to program the FPGA (no need of special cable). Continue reading Spartan 3E demo board

First Post!

By on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under computer vision, Embedded Linux, FPGA, VHDL.

Hello folks!

This is my very new post here. Before we start, let me present myself. My name is Marcelo I’m from Brazil but I live in Canada since 2007 (so, I’m sorry for my bad english lol). I’m an electronic engineer graduated at UTFPR in 2003 and I work with electronics since 2001. Continue reading First Post!