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​FPGA’s are used in many applications today, and with more and more devices incorporating “smart” features, they are becoming common place in designs. Previous to FPGA's, micro controllers were exclusively used to incorporate new features on a embedded products. With new products pushing the processing limits of micro controllers, FPGA's are an option to solve this issue.

This course is designed to teach students about what an FPGA is and what applications they are used in. In this course the students will also get to see a step by step instruction to create a project in Vivado, and program the development board. This first part of this course gives a high level overview of what an FPGA is and how they are programmed. The second part of the course takes the students step-by-step how to create a project in Vivado and use this project to implement a design and program an FPGA on a development board (Arty A7).

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• Buttons & LEDs
A project that is designed to teach students the very basics of VHDL as well as how to make specific pins on an FPGA inputs (buttons) and outputs (LEDs).
• Blinky LEDs
Students will learn how to create a counter in VHDL in order to simultaneously turn multiple LEDs on and off in unison.
• LED Brightness
This project will have students create 3 VHDL designs, a PWM design to control the brightness of the LEDs, a counter to vary the duty cycle, and a top level design to pull everything together.
• UART Demonstration
Students will be introduced to softcore processors and use them to display a “Hello World” message on a serial port terminal.
• UART I/O
In the project students will build upon the ability to transmit messages using the softcore processor to read messages. Students will learn how to interpret messages coming from the computer to the FPGA in order to read the status of various peripherals on the board.
• AD Processing
This project will have students perform an analog to digital conversion. As en example, they sense the temperature.
• SPI Interface (Arty A7 Only)
In this project students will learn how to work with SPI interface. They will load existing designs onto the external flash memory chip to have the FPGA configure itself through the SPI interface.
• I2C Interface (DE10 Nano Only)
In this project students will learn how to work with I2C. They will load an embedded Linux operating system onto the DE10 Nano development board. They will then run a program that interfaces with the onboard accelerometer to display the g forces the sensor reads.

All of the required background and knowledge to complete each project will be explained prior to completing the project. There are demonstration videos and walk-throughs for each project so that you can have a deep understanding of how the project works.

​VHDL and FPGA Development for Beginners and Intermediates is a course that is designed to teach students how to create and successfully simulate their VHDL design. We will also be implementing these designs on a Xilinx BASYS 3 or BASYS 2 FPGA development board so that the students can see their designs actually running.

This course starts from beginning to end in teaching the user how to turn their digital logic design into VHDL designs that can be simulated in ModelSim or ISim and then implemented on an FPGA development board. This course also covers how to use Altera's tools so students are not limited to Xilinx development boards.