FPGA Design Learning VHDL

From zero to VHDL designer. Learn how to implement your VHDL design on FPGA starting from scratch

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In Surf-VHDL, we have more than 15 years in FPGA/ASIC VHDL design.

In this course, you will learn the basic rules to implement and efficient hardware design and how to apply these rules using VHDL.

You will learn all the basic of the VHDL syntax:

Entity / Architecture pair definition
Concurrency
VHDL Coding Style: Structural, Behavioral, Sequential
Event and Transaction
Delay Modeling: Inertial vs Transport delay
Concurrent Conditional Signal Assignment
Understanding Driver & Source concept
Parametric Design: Generics
VHDL Types and Data object
VHDL Types of Data Object: Signal, Variable, Constant and FILE
Type bit vs ulogic vs std_logic
Signed and Unsigned Data Types
Type Conversion and Type Casting
Subtype definition
Process Statement
Sequential Conditional Statement: IF and CASE
Sequential-Iterative Statement: FOR and WHILE
The Assert Statement
Sequential WAIT Statement
Sensitivity List vs WAIT Statement
Procedure and Function
Packages
Concurrent iterative Statement FOR GENERATE
Concurrent conditional Statement IF GENERATE
TextIO package: Read/Write from file
Test bench design and simulation
In the LAB section you will learn how to implement:


Heart-bit design: let's start with a blinking led
Seven segment display: write a VHDL code and drive a seven segment display
UART: learn how to implement a UART 16650 compatible with internal FIFO
Command Parser: VHDL design that contains the LAB above. Connect your board to a PC and start communicate with it.
All the LABs are provided with the VHDL code that you have to complete and simulate.

In the LAB videos there will be addressed the exercise solution: you will learn how to implement the lab VHDL code, simulate and layout on FPGA