FPGA workshop

FPGA workshop
Name	hands-on FPGA
Date	2015/01/04
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Location	@space
Contact	theo
Attendees	User:buzz, Dennis

A two-day hands-on workshop FPGA programming.

Hardware: an Altera cyclone FPGA development kit such as Terasic de0 nano (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=139&No=593) or (preferably) Bemicro CV ( http://parts.arrow.com/item/detail/arrow-development-tools/bemicrocv#ypJJ).

• note* I've tried to order Bemicro CV's as that would be better value (cyclone V instead of cyclone IV and 128MB instead of 32MB RAM), but the order got bounced. They go in and out of stock constantly, so i'll try again later

Topics include

• Recap of basic logic design principles
• FPGA hardware architecture, logic blocks, look-up tables, memory and multipliers
• FPGA resource constraints: routing, logic blocks, IO limitations
• Hard & Soft IP and licensing
• Installing Quartus on a linux machine
• Design project workflow
• Basic (V)HDL
• Nios IIe system builder.
• Altera vs Xilinx vs Lattice vs .....

Requirements

Some understanding of logic circuitry design principles, a supported (Altera) FPGA development kit and access to a (linux) computer for running the Quartus software

Costs

Free as in free beer and free speech, but limited to the consumables that you bring yourself ;-)

Venue

• Diedenoort, Wageningen

Extra

Date and supported development kits are tentative, and will be fixed at least 8 weeks before workshop. If necessary we can organize a group-buy.

If you're interested in joining please PM me at the0 @ #nurds (irc.oftc.net) OR reply to my mail to the mailing list. It would be useful to know how much you know about digital circuit design as well