FPGAWorkshopTopics

Archive of Materials from the HacDC FPGA Workshop

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Discussion Materials

Week	Date	Topics Covered	Exercise	Solutions/Approach
1	October 7th, 2009	Workshop Introduction & Introduction to digital systems and design	Make sure people can run the Virtual Machine or FOSS tools	Lorem Ipsum
2	October 14th, 2009	Boolean Logic, combinatorial circuits and timing	Boolean & Combinatorial Exercises	Exercise Solutions Discussion 2 Exercises Solution notes
3	October 21st, 2009	Introduction to Verilog Coding, focusing on combinatorial circuits	Verilog Coding Modular Full Adder Design and Simulation and ALU extension project	Solutions
4	October 28th, 2009	Make up day		Solutions
4 1/2	November 4th, 2009	Introduction to Sequential Logic and Flip Flops	Audio	Placeholder
5	November 11th, 2009	No class meeting with Will	Different adder construction, shift register and LFSR construction	4 bit counter code from group hacking session
6	November 18th, 2009	DFFs round 2, Testbenches Notes on the use of Define statements, tasks and events	Shift Register & LFSR examples from week 5	Shift Register, SR Testbench, LFSR, LFSR Testbench
7	November 25th, 2009	Xilinx tool install party	Xilinx ISE In-Depth Tutorial	See Tutorial
8	December 2nd, 2009	Finite State Machines Clocking Notes	Vending Machine Simulation from notes	FSM level-to-pulse converter, testbench
9	December 9th, 2009	We talked about stuff	People start posting project ideas	Solutions
10	December 16th, 2009	Introduction to FPGAs - History, Capabilities and Features	Exploring designs and FPGA tools	Solutions
11	December 23rd, 2009	ISE Tutorial for Spartan 3E board	Counter Source	Video of HacDC FPGA blinkenlites
12	December 30th, 2009	Distribute kits, play with tutorial, work on usb drivers
13	January 5th, 2010	Implement Frequency Counter and Frequency Generator reference designs	Spartan 3E Reference Designs
14	January 26th, 2010	Intro to PicoBlaze
15	February 2nd, 2010	Cancelled
16	February 16th, 2010	Analysis of Frequency counter PicoBlaze reference design
17	March 2nd, 2010	Picoblaze Flow / Hello World
18	March 23rd, 2010	Modify the counter reference design to print data to UART.
19	April 6th, 2010	tbd
19	April 20th, 2010	tbd

Videos of Discussions

The videos are mpeg4 video with aac audio

Week	Video Links	Notes
1	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8	not equal length
2	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5	Video cuts out at a discussion about Rise and Fall times
3	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
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