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Revision as of 23:07, 18 May 2019
| Event CyberSaturday : FPGA cursus | |
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| Name | CyberSaturday : FPGA cursus |
| Contact | Renze |
| Duration | 2019/08/17 - 2019/08/17 |
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Prerequisites
Installed Icestorm toolchain, that supports the Lattice ICE40UP5K FPGA. For instructions read here or use a script that does the work A micro usb cable A working laptop that can run the Icestorm toolchain (Linux or OSX should be fine, for Windows I don't know#) 4 hours of your time, an Saturday the 13th (There will be some breaks) Some basic knowledge about programming
Appreciated
Feedback
If you have your own UPDuino, it's fine to join in, if not you can buy a kit from me for 20 euros, containing :
A UPDuino V2 FPGA development board Breadboard to install the UPDuino on DS18B20 temperature sensor Some dupont wire 2x 12kΩ 1x 4.7kΩ resistor
Topics
Basic IO Modules Constraint files The clock Using simulation Module parameters Wires registers and variables Arrays Verilog tasks, functions, if statements, and for loops. Building a simple state machine using case statements
Please install the toolchain before showing up
Because the toolchain is pretty big the compiling takes a long time on my core I5 (40 minutes), so having a working toolchain installed before the workshop very useful.
If the toolchain is already installed, and you would like to know if your toolchain will work with the development UPDuino V2, do the following:
$ arachne-pnr -h
This results in the help being printed, containing a list of the supported devices:
-d <device>, --device <device>
Target device <device>. Supported devices:
384 - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40LP384
1k - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40LP/HX1K
5k - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40UP5K
lm4k - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40LM4K
8k - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40LP/HX8K
Default: 1k
FPGA Workshop on github has links and instructions.
Notice the line '5k - Lattice Semiconductor iCE40UP5K', this tells you that the toolchain is good to go. If not try to find a newer version and install it before the workshop. Attendees
