FPGA

I knew virtually nothing about FPGA devices at that time. Now that almost 1.5 years have passed, I thought I would summarize what I have learned in this document:

• An FPGA Manifesto

Without a doubt I am Xilix centric, simply due to my starting with the Xilinx Zynq chip on the EBAZ boards. That is plenty to keep me busy for now.

My Projects

• My FPGA projects
• The "bitstream" project

• My plans for more projects 6-2-2022

Hardware

• Hardware Overview
• Comparison of some FPGA devices

• Ebaz4205 (Zynq)
• ZYBO (Zynq)
• Zedboard (Zynq 7020, $400)
• Styx (7020, $350
• AliExpress: $50 Zynq board, by ZYJZGW

• Spartan 3E
• Linsn RV901T (Spartan 6)
• Openworkbench Logic Sniffer (OLS)
• Pano Logic thin client

• History, old FPGA devices
• Other (non-Xilinx) devices
• Cheap FPGA boards
• EZ-USB (CY7C68013A - not fpga)

• U-Boot for Xilinx

Software

• Xilinx ISE
• Xilinx Vivado
• Xilinx Vitis

• Verilog and VHDL

other resources

• FPGA basics
• Books: Verilog and VHDL
• Example CPU cores - CPU designs
• Linux open source verilog/vhdl tools

• My old links and resources