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15 years ago

Completely New to FPGAs

Hey there, I'm a graduate student in EE with a strong interest in analog/analog design. My undergrad work only provided me with a small taste of FPGAs because I picked all analog courses. Howev...
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15 years ago

Hello,

for personal experience, the first exercises someone should try are very simple: turning on leds and read buttons/switches is quite a good one.

Even more complex experiments may have a LED as a target: I am thinking at a PLL reconfiguration that makes a LED blink faster or slower. I know that the ALTPLL_RECONFIG megafunction does a lot of this job but you can build your own finite state machine to trigger and control ALTPLL_RECONFIG. Then you can do some practice on SDC constraints and PLLs. Just to tell the first non-trivial example that jumped in my mind.

I also remember that while I was a student I did not have so much spare time during lessons or exams so having the board in time for the break should be quite good.

These are my parameters: the choice is up to you.

Regards,

Gabriele