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Best VHDL Courses 2021
Best VHDL Tutorials 2021
Learn VHDL and FPGA Development
This course supports Xilinx and Altera FPGA development boards. VHDL and FPGA Development for Beginners and Intermediates is a course designed to teach students how to successfully create and simulate their VHDL design. We will also be implementing these designs on a Xilinx BASYS 3 or BASYS 2 FPGA development board so that students can see their designs running. This course begins from start to finish by teaching the user how to transform their digital logic design into VHDL designs that can be simulated in ModelSim or ISim and then implemented on an FPGA development board. This course also explains how to use Altera’s tools so that students are not limited to Xilinx development boards. This course contains over 20 lectures that will teach students the syntax and structure of VHDL. The student will be able to understand the syntax and usage of specific VHDL keywords by taking this course. Classes are included in each lab to give an overview of the digital logic circuit that the student will implement.
This course contains 7 workshops designed for the student to learn to develop VHDL code. For each lab, I will give the student a set of VHDL files that they will need to edit or change in order for the project to be simulated correctly in ModelSim and for them to implement the design on their FPGA board. These labs are designed to help students learn VHDL by coding it themselves.
You will learn:
Understand the design process to implement a digital design on an FPGA
Learn how to simulate a design in Altera’s ModelSim and Xilinx Isim
Learn how to use the Xilinx ISE tool to program FPGAs
Debug a VHDL Design Using ModelSim
Simulate a VHDL Design Using ModelSim
Familiarize yourself with the Altera and Xilinx tools
Programming an FPGA
Learn the Fundamentals of VHDL and FPGA Development
You will learn by doing real programming. All code and examples are explained in tutorial videos. After adjusting existing code or creating your own, you’ll run simulations to verify it. If you are interested in running your code on real hardware (not required, but a lot more fun), we recommend Altera or Xilinx cards.
Learn the Basics of VHDL and FPGA Development is a course that will teach you the basics and basics of VHDL design. In this course, you will work on various projects that will require you to go through the entire FPGA development process. You will be walked through coding from actual VHDL to synthesis using the Xilinx developer tool, Vivado or the Altera Quartus developer tool. There are 8 projects in this course:
Buttons and LEDs
A project designed to teach students the basics of VHDL as well as the creation of specific pins on the inputs (buttons) and outputs (LEDs) of an FPGA.
Flashing LEDs
Students will learn to create a VHDL meter to simultaneously turn on and off multiple LEDs in unison.
LED brightness
This project will require students to create 3 VHDL designs, a PWM design to control the brightness of LEDs, a meter to vary the duty cycle, and a high level design to bring it all together.
UART demonstration
Students will be introduced to softcore processors and will use them to display a “Hello World” message on a serial port terminal.
UART I / O
As part of the project, students will rely on the ability to transmit messages using the softcore processor to read messages. Students will learn to interpret messages from the computer to the FPGA in order to read the status of various devices on the board.
AD treatment
This project will require students to perform an analog-to-digital conversion. For example, they detect the temperature.
SPI interface (Arty A7 only)
In this project, students will learn to work with the SPI interface. They will load existing designs onto the external flash memory chip for the FPGA to configure itself through the SPI interface.
I2C interface (DE10 Nano only)
In this project, students will learn to work with I2C. They will load an embedded Linux operating system on the DE10 Nano development board. They will then run a program that interfaces with the on-board accelerometer to display the forces read by the sensor.
All background and knowledge necessary to complete each project will be explained before completing the project. There are demo videos and presentations for each project so you can get a deep understanding of how the project works.
You will learn:
Understand the design process to implement a digital design on an FPGA
Learn how to simulate a design in Altera’s ModelSim and Vivado SImulator
Learn how to use the Xilinx Vivado tool to program FPGAs
Simulate a VHDL Design Using ModelSim
Familiarize yourself with the Altera and Xilinx tools