Digital electronics
The repository contains VHDL lab exercises for bachelor course Digital Electronics at Brno University of Technology, Czechia. Nexys A7 Artix-7 FPGA board is used the course.
Exercises
- Introduction to Git and VHDL
- Combinational logic
- Introduction to Vivado
- Seven-segment display decoder
- Latches and Flip-flops
- Binary counter
- Driver for multiple seven-segment displays
- Traffic light controller
- Project
List of VHDL examples
- Basic gates in VHDL
- Binary comparator
- Half/Full adder
- Seven-segment display
- Clock enable circuit
- N-bit Up/Down binary counter
- Driver for 7-segment display
- One-minute stopwatch
- Traffic light controller
Components
The following hardware and software components are mainly used in the lab.
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Boards:
- Nexys A7 Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board: reference manual, schematic, XC7A50T-1CSG324C FPGA, Nexys-A7-50T-Master.xdc
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Analyzers:
- 24MHz 8-channel logic analyzer: software
- Oscilloscope Keysight Technologies DSOX3034T (350 MHz, 4 analog channels), including 16 logic timing channels DSOXT3MSO and serial protocol triggering and decode options D3000BDLA
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Development tools:
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Vivado Design Suite 2020.2: installation
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EDA Playground is a cloud-based service that runs in your browser
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TerosHDL is an open-source IDE for FPGA: installation 👍
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Other tool(s):
References
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Jeremiah C. Leary. Welcome to vhdl-style-guide's documentation!
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ASHENDEN, Peter J. The designer's guide to VHDL. 3rd ed. Boston: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2008. ISBN 978-0-12-088785-9.
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CHU, Pong P. FPGA prototyping by VHDL examples. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2008. ISBN 978-0-470-18531-5.
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MANO, M. Morris. Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog, HDL, VHDL, and System Verilog. Pearson, 6th edition, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1292231167.
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KALLSTROM, P. A Fairly Small VHDL Guide. Version 2.1.