Practical Fpga Programming In C

FPGA brings high performance applications to market quickly – this book covers the many emerging platforms in a proven, effective manner.

Get started with FPGA programming using SystemVerilog, and develop real-world skills by building projects, including a calculator and a keyboard Key Features Explore different FPGA usage methods and the FPGA tool flow Learn how to design, test, and implement hardware circuits using SystemVerilog Build real-world FPGA projects such as a calculator and a keyboard using FPGA resources Book DescriptionField 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 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 keyboard interfacing with PS/2 Discover how you can implement a VGA interface in your projects Who this book is for This FPGA design book is for embedded system developers, engineers, and programmers who want to learn FPGA and SystemVerilog programming from scratch. FPGA designers looking to gain hands-on experience in working on real-world projects will also find this book useful.

This book introduces the FPGA technology used in the laboratory sessions, and provides a step-by-step guide for designing and simulation of digital circuits. It utilizes the VHDL language, which is one of the most common language used to describe the design of digital systems. The Quartus II, Xilinx ISE 14.7 and ModelSim software are used to process the VHDL code and make simulations, and then the Altera and Xilinx FPGA platforms are employed to implement the simulated digital designs. The book is composed of four parts. The first part of this book has two chapters and covers various aspects: FPGA architectures, ASIC vs FPGA comparison, FPGA design flow and basic VHDL concepts necessary to describe the design of digital systems. The second part of the book includes three chapters that deal with the design of digital circuits such as combinational logic circuits, sequential logic circuits and finite state machines. The third part of the book is reserved for laboratory projects carried out on the FPGA platform. It is a largely hands-on lab class for design digital circuits and implementing their designs on the Altera FPGA platform. Finally, the fourth part of this work is devoted to recent applications carried out on FPGAs, in particular advanced techniques in renewable energy systems. The book is primarily intended for students, scholars, and industrial practitioners interested in the design of modern digital systems.

This book makes powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and reconfigurable technology accessible to software engineers by covering different state-of-the-art high-level synthesis approaches (e.g., OpenCL and several C-to-gates compilers). It introduces FPGA technology, its programming model, and how various applications can be implemented on FPGAs without going through low-level hardware design phases. Readers will get a realistic sense for problems that are suited for FPGAs and how to implement them from a software designer’s point of view. The authors demonstrate that FPGAs and their programming model reflect the needs of stream processing problems much better than traditional CPU or GPU architectures, making them well-suited for a wide variety of systems, from embedded systems performing sensor processing to large setups for Big Data number crunching. This book serves as an invaluable tool for software designers and FPGA design engineers who are interested in high design productivity through behavioural synthesis, domain-specific compilation, and FPGA overlays. Introduces FPGA technology to software developers by giving an overview of FPGA programming models and design tools, as well as various application examples; Provides a holistic analysis of the topic and enables developers to tackle the architectural needs for Big Data processing with FPGAs; Explains the reasons for the energy efficiency and performance benefits of FPGA processing; Provides a user-oriented approach and a sense for where and how to apply FPGA technology.

"This book provides innovative behavior models currently used for developing embedded systems, accentuating on graphical and visual notations"--Provided by publisher.

This book is not intended to just be read. In this book you are going to get your hands dirty. It is intended to be a hands-on book with real exercises. You will be guided through a series of projects that use the Opal Kelly XEM-7001 FPGA Module. You may choose to use a different FPGA module, but you will need to modify the projects accordingly. You will have to purchase a small set of electronic components that will be used in all the projects. The book provides a list of them along with all the part numbers for ordering through www.digikey.com, one of the most popular online electronic supply stores. When you have completed this book, you will have hands-on real-world experience in using FPGA modules that you can then apply to any project you like from robotics to home automation to just about anything else you can think of.The programs used to communicate with the FPGA will be written in C++. Again, the goal is not to teach C++ but to provide code for the projects. All the code and VHDL firmware code is available online for the user to download. A little bit of programming skills is required but again we do not use any of the advanced features of C++. All the projects use simple console-based applications, as I did not want to have to go into all the ways of creating windows-based applications.Chapter 1 is an introduction to FPGA's in general, describing what they are, how they are used and what they are used for. Chapter 2 dives into the details of the Opal Kelly XEM7001 FPGA module. Its features and how to communicate with it via a Personal Computer (PC). Chapter 3 dives into the language used to program FPGA's. Specifically, VHDL. This book it not intended to teach VHDL and all the projects will be using the basics of VHDL, not the more advanced features. This chapter does not talk about it in theory alone but we actually will use it with Xilinx Vivado development tool to create VHDL code, synthesize it and run simulations on it. Unlike other books that just talk about VHDL without providing any actual integration of it with real world tools. We will dive into it in great detail using very simple examples. This will help the user learn VHDL within the Vivado tool set. Because developing an FPGA application involves more than just VHDL it also involves other files called XDC files with their own 'mini' language, this is integrated into the exercises of the chapter. You will come out of this chapter with a complete understanding of how to develop an FPGA project from start to finish. In Chapter 4 we delve into creating FPGA projects for the XEM-7001 that will actually do something. Starting with controlling the onboard LED's and moving to more complicated tasks. Chapter 4 is the longest chapter in the book. You will be breadboarding real circuits and then having the FPGA control and use those circuits while observing the results using various test instruments. There is a small investment in various components that you will need. The fun thing is, you get to see the results of your efforts from temperature sensors and other interface chips. You finally get a break at chapter 5! It just talks about communications protocols that FPGA's and Micro-controllers use to talk to other chips. Chapter 6 we pickup on communicating with other chips (ADC's, Temperature Sensors, EEPROM Memory Chips etc.) Again, you are going to be wiring up a lot of circuits and observing the results of your labor. Chapter 7 is probably one of the most fun chapters, here we are interfacing to electro-mechanical motors, from standard motors with attached encoders, to stepper motors ending with servo motors, we get the world moving some! We end this chapter implementing a 'soft-core' micro controller withing the FPGA. Specifically, the Xilinx Micro-Blaze MCS. Yes, you can actually implement a microcontroller inside of an FPGA! Chapter 8 completes the book with instructions on where you may go from here.

The US, Europe, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputers – exascale machines capable of 10 to the 18th power calculations a second – by 2020. But the barriers are daunting: the challenge is to change the paradigm of high-performance computing. The 2012 biennial high performance workshop, held in Cetraro, Italy in June 2012, focused on the challenges facing the computing research community to reach exascale performance in the next decade. This book presents papers from this workshop, arranged into four major topics: energy, scalability, new architectural concepts and programming of heterogeneous computing systems. Chapter 1 introduces the status of present supercomputers, which are still about two orders of magnitude separated from the exascale mark. Chapter 2 examines energy demands, a major limiting factor of today's fastest supercomputers; the quantum leap in performance required for exascale computing will require a shift in architectures and technology. In Chapter 3, scalable computer paradigms for dense linear algebra on massive heterogeneous systems are presented, and Chapter 4 discusses architectural concepts. Finally, Chapter 5 addresses the programming of heterogeneous systems. This book will be of interest to all those wishing to understand how the development of modern supercomputers is set to advance in the next decade.

The practical guide for every circuit designer creating FPGA designs with Verilog! Walk through design step-by-step-from coding through silicon. Partitioning, synthesis, simulation, test benches, combinatorial and sequential designs, and more. Real World FPGA Design with Verilog guides you through every key challenge associated with designing FPGAs and ASICs using Verilog, one of the world's leading hardware design languages. You'll find irreverent, yet rigorous coverage of what it really takes to translate HDL code into hardware-and how to avoid the pitfalls that can occur along the way. Ken Coffman presents no-frills, real-world design techniques that can improve the stability and reliability of virtually any design. Start by walking a typical Verilog design all the way through to silicon; then, review basic Verilog syntax, design; simulation and testing, advanced simulation, and more. Coverage includes: Essential digital design strategies: recognizing the underlying analog building blocks used to create digital primitives; implementing logic with LUTs; clocking strategies, logic minimization, and more Key engineering tradeoffs, including operating speed vs. latency Combinatorial and sequential designs Verilog test fixtures: compiler directives and automated testing A detailed comparison of alternative architectures and software-including a never-before-published FPGA technology selection checklist Real World FPGA Design with Verilog introduces libraries and reusable modules, points out opportunities to reuse your own code, and helps you decide when to purchase existing IP designs instead of building from scratch. Essential rules for designing with ASIC conversion in mind are presented. If you're involved with digital hardware design with Verilog, Ken Coffman is a welcome voice of experience-showing you the shortcuts, helping you over the rough spots, and helping you achieve competence faster than you ever expected!