Learn how to design digital circuits with FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays), the devices that reconfigure themselves to become the very hardware circuits you set out to program. With this practical guide, author Justin Rajewski shows you hands-on how to create FPGA projects, whether you€re a programmer, engineer, product designer, or maker. You€ll quickly go from the basics to designing your own processor.
Designing digital circuits used to be a long and costly endeavor that only big companies could pursue. FPGAs make the process much easier, and now they€re affordable enough even for hobbyists. If you€re familiar with electricity and basic electrical components, this book starts simply and progresses through increasingly complex projects.
- Set up your environment by installing Xilinx ISE and the author€s Mojo IDE
- Learn how hardware designs are broken into modules, comparable to functions in a software program
- Create digital hardware designs and learn the basics on how they€ll be implemented by the FPGA
- Build your projects with Lucid, a beginner-friendly hardware description language, based on Verilog, with syntax similar to C/C++ and Java
