FPGA Programming for Beginners

Table of Contents

Preface

Section 1: Introduction to FPGAs and Xilinx Architectures

Chapter 1: Introduction to FPGA Architectures and Xilinx Vivado

Technical requirements

Hardware

Software

What is an ASIC?

Why an ASIC or FPGA?

How does a company create a programmable device using an ASIC process?

Fundamental logic gates

More complex operations

Introducing FPGAs

Exploring the Xilinx Artix-7 and 7 series devices

Combinational logic blocks

Storage

Clocking

I/Os

DSP48E1

ASMBL architecture

Introduction to the Vivado toolset and evaluation boards

Evaluation boards

Nexys A7 100T (or 50T)

Basys 3

Introducing Vivado

Vivado installation

Directory structure

Running the example

Summary

Questions

Challenge

Further reading

Section 2: Introduction to Verilog ...