newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

[Manwlis Giannos]

Hello to everyone.
  I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos
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[xu jianfeng]

Hi, Manuel,
First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention what is your intention/application.
In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your choice.
Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials.
JTAG interface is one of the download options.
Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you will have a rough idea about what shall you do.
regards,
Jeffsen



----- Original Message ----
From: "mgiannos2000@..." <mgiannos2000@...>
To: cores@...
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM
Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

Hello to everyone.
  I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos
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[Haghdoost]

Hi Giannos

I think you could find many interesting hint in http://www.fpga4fun.com/.
also you could program almost all of the cores which was designed with synthesizable nature on your specific FPGA board,  so you need an FPGA developmnet board for start.


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Best regards,
Alireza Haghdoost,
Student of hardware engineering,

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:16 PM, <mgiannos2000@...> wrote:

Hello to everyone.
 I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos
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http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores

 

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[Haghdoost]

Hi Jeffsen

I am using Spartan 2 XC200S, but i can't found any soft core processor in their package, would you mind pleas tell me more about the detail of using dedicated soft core processor ?



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Best regards,
Alireza Haghdoost,
Student of hardware engineering,

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:10 AM, xu jianfeng <xjf77@...> wrote:

Hi, Manuel,
First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention what is your intention/application.
In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your choice.
Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials.
JTAG interface is one of the download options.
Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you will have a rough idea about what shall you do.
regards,
Jeffsen



----- Original Message ----
From: "mgiannos2000@..." <mgiannos2000@...>
To: cores@...
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM
Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

Hello to everyone.
  I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos
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[jardel]

Hi Manuel,

  I suggest you consider the new Spartan 3A Evaluation kit, that costs only
US$ 39,00. Spartan 3A is the spartan series low cost i/o optimised FPGA.

Comments: http://www.pldesignline.com/products/207401864
Online Sales:http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl
Block Diagram:
http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/s3a_evl_block_diagram%20042508.pdf
Product Brief:
http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/xlx_s3a_evl-pb062308F.pdf

  Spartan 3E
(http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable),
that uou´ve cited, is a too a good options, but is more expensive.

Tks,

Jardel.


On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT), xu jianfeng <xjf77@...>
wrote:
> Hi, Manuel,
> First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention
what
> is your intention/application.
> In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are
> talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx
> FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by
> Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core
> PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your
> choice.
> Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields,
you
> can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone
abundant
> third-party examples/tutorials.
> JTAG interface is one of the download options.
> Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you
will

> have a rough idea about what shall you do.
> regards,
> Jeffsen
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "mgiannos2000@..." <mgiannos2000@...>
> To: cores@...
> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM
> Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field
>
> Hello to everyone.
>   I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
> notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
> my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
> from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
> as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
> cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
> get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
> thank you for any response
> Manuel Giannos
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> http://www.opencores.org/mailman/listinfo/cores
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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[Manwlis Giannos]

----- Original Message -----
From: xu jianfeng<xjf77@y...>
To:
Date: Sat Jul  5 22:40:29 CEST 2008
Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

> Hi, Manuel,
> First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't
> mention what is your intention/application.
> In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well,
> we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one
> of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor
> ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains
> one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget
> to decide which will be your choice.
> Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various
> fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your
> FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials.
> JTAG interface is one of the download options.
> Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera),
> you will have a rough idea about what shall you do.
> regards,
> Jeffsen

Thanks a lot for your reply. What concerns my app here is the deal: i
want to use the hdlc IP & especially the RX part, 8 channels totally.
Finally i want to interface it to a ARM uC. Xilinx & Altera has
something relevant to that. If you could recommend me, as well, a free
cpld or fpga programmer which programs the device containing the IP
implementation I would have the perfect situation (since i would not
have to purchase a dev or eval kit from a certain vendor).
Once again thank you for any further reply
Manos
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[xu jianfeng]

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Hi, Alireza,

 

Spartan-3 supports MicroBlaze, while it seems Spartan-2 dose not. Do you have EDK? It's the most convenient way to configure your microprocessor system.

 

regards,

jeffsen

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From: Alireza Haghdoost <haghdoost@...>
To: Discussion list about free open source IP cores <cores@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2008 11:44:18 AM
Subject: Re: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD fiel

Hi Jeffsen

I am using Spartan 2 XC200S, but i can't found any soft core processor in their package, would you mind pleas tell me more about the detail of using dedicated soft core processor ?



--
Best regards,
Alireza Haghdoost,
Student of hardware engineering,

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 12:10 AM, xu jianfeng <xjf77@...> wrote:

Hi, Manuel,
First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention what is your intention/application.
In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your choice.
Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields, you can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone abundant third-party examples/tutorials.
JTAG interface is one of the download options.
Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you will have a rough idea about what shall you do.
regards,
Jeffsen



----- Original Message ----
From: "mgiannos2000@..." <mgiannos2000@...>
To: cores@...
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM
Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field

Hello to everyone.
  I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
thank you for any response
Manuel Giannos
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[Alessandro-42]

Hi everybody!

I'm working at this enhanced ZX-Spectrum clone (ZX-Badaloc) project:
http://www.zxbada.bbk.org/badaloc_fpga/index.htm and, thanks to the support
about the T80 core of Mike Johnson, who suggested a workaround for timing
problem (using the fpgaarcade's pacman T80 wrapper), it is possible to run
the clone on the Spartan 3E evaluation board (downloadable file available).

I'm using the internal blockram of the fpga, but the next step would be
accessing the on-board DDR chip and to implement all the advanced memory
features of the original clone (that I made using a XPLA3 cpld a couple of
years ago).

The problem is: is there a way to istantiate a DDR controller which matches
the ddr chip installed on this board without getting mad? I've been trying
in many ways; maybe I need to install the EDK that comes with the board, but
the problem is: I started the project on ISE 10 and I don't want to
downgrade it to 9 (which is the version of EDK on my Xilinx DVD).
Furthermore, I'm not even sure this would solve the problem.

I'm new to fpgas, I found a way to istantiate block ram, the DCM for 85MHz,
the T80 processor... but this time I'm stuck. I see there are ddr
controller's IP here and there but it seems a complex matter to me. I can't
believe xilinx does not provide one ready to use for this board... am I
wrong?

If someone could help me, we may see a 64megabyte 42.5MHz ZX-Spectrum soon
:-)

Thanks in advance and Best Regards
Alessandro

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[andrew mulcock]

And

I'd imagine the Edk you have on disk is an eval version, they normally are
as EDK costs extra.

If you did pay for EDK, then you get one year of update, so you could then
update to latest EDK.

Xilinx certainly used to provide BDF's,
        for instance this is the link to the reference designs for one of
the Xilinx boards I use.

http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards/s3estarter/reference_designs.htm


Andrew



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Sent: 10 July 2008 22:23
To: Discussion list about free open source IP cores
Subject: [oc] DDR IP for Spartan 3E Xilinx evakit


Hi everybody!

I'm working at this enhanced ZX-Spectrum clone (ZX-Badaloc) project:
http://www.zxbada.bbk.org/badaloc_fpga/index.htm and, thanks to the support
about the T80 core of Mike Johnson, who suggested a workaround for timing
problem (using the fpgaarcade's pacman T80 wrapper), it is possible to run
the clone on the Spartan 3E evaluation board (downloadable file available).

I'm using the internal blockram of the fpga, but the next step would be
accessing the on-board DDR chip and to implement all the advanced memory
features of the original clone (that I made using a XPLA3 cpld a couple of
years ago).

The problem is: is there a way to istantiate a DDR controller which matches
the ddr chip installed on this board without getting mad? I've been trying
in many ways; maybe I need to install the EDK that comes with the board, but

the problem is: I started the project on ISE 10 and I don't want to
downgrade it to 9 (which is the version of EDK on my Xilinx DVD).
Furthermore, I'm not even sure this would solve the problem.

I'm new to fpgas, I found a way to istantiate block ram, the DCM for 85MHz,
the T80 processor... but this time I'm stuck. I see there are ddr
controller's IP here and there but it seems a complex matter to me. I can't
believe xilinx does not provide one ready to use for this board... am I
wrong?

If someone could help me, we may see a 64megabyte 42.5MHz ZX-Spectrum soon
:-)

Thanks in advance and Best Regards
Alessandro

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