FPGA Programming for Beginners

Bring your ideas to life by creating hardware designs and electronic circuits with SystemVerilog

Frank Bruno 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2021년 03월 05일 출간

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Get started with FPGA programming using SystemVerilog, and develop real-world skills by building projects, including a calculator and a keyboard

▶Book Description
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have now become a core part of most modern electronic and computer systems. However, to implement your ideas in the real world, you need to get your head around the FPGA architecture, its toolset, and critical design considerations. FPGA Programming for Beginners will help you bring your ideas to life by guiding you through the entire process of programming FPGAs and designing hardware circuits using SystemVerilog.

The book will introduce you to the FPGA and Xilinx architectures and show you how to work on your first project, which includes toggling an LED. You'll then cover SystemVerilog RTL designs and their implementations. Next, you'll get to grips with using the combinational Boolean logic design and work on several projects, such as creating a calculator and updating it using FPGA resources. Later, the book will take you through the advanced concepts of AXI and serial interfaces and show you how to create a keyboard using PS/2. Finally, you'll be able to consolidate all the projects in the book to create a unified output using a Video Graphics Array (VGA) controller that you'll design.

By the end of this SystemVerilog FPGA book, you'll have learned how to work with FPGA systems and be able to design hardware circuits and boards using SystemVerilog programming.

▶What You Will Learn
-Understand the FPGA architecture and its implementation
-Get to grips with writing SystemVerilog RTL
-Make FPGA projects using SystemVerilog programming
-Work with computer math basics, parallelism, and pipelining
-Explore the advanced topics of AXI and serial interfaces
-Discover how you can implement a VGA interface in your projects

▶Key Features
-Explore different FPGA usage methods and the FPGA tool flow
-Learn how to design, test, and implement hardware circuits using System

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
▷Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures
-Chapter 1: Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado

▷Section 2: Introduction to Verilog RTL Design, Simulation, and Implementation
-Chapter 2: Combinational Logic
-Chapter 3: Counting Button Presses
-Chapter 4: Let's Build a Calculator
-Chapter 5: FPGA Resources and How to Use Them
-Chapter 6: Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design

▷Section 3: Interfacing with External Components
-Chapter 7: Introduction to AXI
-Chapter 8: Lots of Data? MIG and DDR2
-Chapter 9: A Better Way to Display ？ VGA
-Chapter 10: Bringing It All Together
-Chapter 11: Advanced Topics

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▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado, explains what an ASIC and an FPGA is, and how to install Xilinx Vivado and create a small design.

- Chapter 2, Combinational Logic, looks at writing a complete SystemVerilog module from scratch to perform some basic operations to show how to use combinational logic in your own designs. We'll also introduce testbenches and how to write one that self-checks.

- Chapter 3, Counting Button Presses, builds upon the previous chapter's combination logic, adding storage―sequential elements. We'll learn about the capabilities of the Artix-7 and other FPGA devices to store data and design a simple project to count button presses. We'll also take a look at using clocks and synchronization, one of the few things that can break a design completely if not done correctly.

- Chapter 4, Let's Build a Calculator, looks at how, to create more complex designs, inevitably you need to keep track of the design state. In this chapter, we'll learn about state machines and use a classic staple of engineering, the traffic light controller. We'll also enhance our calculator and show how we can design a divider using a state-based design.

- Chapter 5, FPGA Resources and How to Use Them, takes a step back after having quickly dived into FPGA designs, examining some of the FPGA resources in more detail. To use these resources, we'll introduce some of the board resources, the PDM microphone and i2c temperature sensor attached to the FPGA, and use them in projects.

- Chapter 6, Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design, takes a deeper dive into fixed-point and floating-point numbers. We'll also look at pipelined designs and parallelism for performance.

- Chapter 7, Introduction to AXI, covers how Xilinx has adopted the AXI standard to interface its IP and has developed a tool, IP integrator, to easily connect the IP graphically. In this chapter, we'll look at AXI by taking our temperature sensor and using t

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▶ Preface
Prepare yourself for some fun. I have been designing ASICs and FPGAs for 30 years and every day brings new challenges and excitement as I push technology to develop new applications. Over the course of my career, I've developed ASICs that powered military aircraft, graphics that ran on high-end workstations and mainstream PCs, technology to power the next generation of software-defined radios, and supplied space-based internet to the globe. Now, I want to give some of that experience back to you.

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저자(글) Frank Bruno

Frank Bruno is an experienced high-performance design engineer specializing in FPGAs with some ASIC experience. He has experience working for companies like SpaceX, Allston Trading, and Number Nine. He is currently working as an FPGA engineer for Allstone Trading.