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From: Vagant on 25 Oct 2007 08:12 On Oct 24, 8:44 pm, DialTone <DialT...(a)faked.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks a lot for reply. I also got idea that it's a great board, > > mainly from others. I have just started and have not find any detailed > > examples how to move forward learning this. > > There are many materials on Xilinx's Web Site but > > all these are mainly about advanced > > programming and there is almost nothing for beginners. > > Hi, > > I'm very new to VHDL/FPGA myself and also have a S3E (the smaller > XC4S500) board. Bought from digilent, it came with no software or manuals > (the manuals are all available from xilinx web site though, of course). > > Not sure if you mean the reference designs athttp://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/s3estarter/reference_designs.htm > > They're certainly quite detailed and complex - I really only looked at > the Rotary Encoder example as this gave quite a simple VHDL design to > experiment with, plus it showed how to read the Rotary thingamajig. > > What I _did_ find really useful to look at (besides the web-based > tutorials and suchlike that you can find with google), was the FPGA > Arcade projecthttp://www.fpgaarcade.com. Both PACMAN and Space Invaders > have been ported to the S3E board, and of course full source is provided. > I also looked at John Kent's excellent FPGA page athttp://members.optushome.com.au/jekent/FPGA.htm- In particular the > System09 project interested me: although there's no version specifically > for the S3E board, there is an S3 version which (although not close > enough to use unmodified) is an interesting insight into VHDL for me. > > I guess it all depends what exactly you want to do with the FPGA, but > perhaps those sites might be useful? > > Good Luck > DT Thanks for update! The sites are just what I look for. :)
From: Vagant on 25 Oct 2007 08:17
On Oct 24, 9:29 pm, "Eric Crabill" <eric.crab...(a)xilinx.com> wrote: > If you have the Spartan-3E Starter Kit, and are interested in using Verilog > as your hardware description language, there are a few tutorials and small > projects you can try at: > > http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/crabill/ > > Eric > > "DialTone" <DialT...(a)faked.com> wrote in message > > news:Xns99D3D2E5CC88Edialtonentlworld(a)62.253.170.163... > > > > > > >> Hi, > >> thanks a lot for reply. I also got idea that it's a great board, > >> mainly from others. I have just started and have not find any detailed > >> examples how to move forward learning this. > > >> There are many materials on Xilinx's Web Site but > >> all these are mainly about advanced > >> programming and there is almost nothing for beginners. > > > Hi, > > > I'm very new to VHDL/FPGA myself and also have a S3E (the smaller > > XC4S500) board. Bought from digilent, it came with no software or manuals > > (the manuals are all available from xilinx web site though, of course). > > > Not sure if you mean the reference designs at > >http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/s3estarter/reference_designs.htm > > > They're certainly quite detailed and complex - I really only looked at > > the Rotary Encoder example as this gave quite a simple VHDL design to > > experiment with, plus it showed how to read the Rotary thingamajig. > > > What I _did_ find really useful to look at (besides the web-based > > tutorials and suchlike that you can find with google), was the FPGA > > Arcade projecthttp://www.fpgaarcade.com. Both PACMAN and Space Invaders > > have been ported to the S3E board, and of course full source is provided. > > I also looked at John Kent's excellent FPGA page at > >http://members.optushome.com.au/jekent/FPGA.htm- In particular the > > System09 project interested me: although there's no version specifically > > for the S3E board, there is an S3 version which (although not close > > enough to use unmodified) is an interesting insight into VHDL for me. > > > I guess it all depends what exactly you want to do with the FPGA, but > > perhaps those sites might be useful? > > > Good Luck > > DT- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thanks for this. I am not using Verilog really so perhaps cannot enjoy much from the site. I just wonder, whether you might consider to give VHDL expamples too, in parallel to Verilog code. |