Hi, Everybody. I'm trying to build a flight control system that is based on FPGA. Is there anybody on this platform who has experience related to this topic, as i'm new into FPGA's and i could use some help. Help needed mainly with the VHDL or Verilog Program to run the system. The Flight Control System in for a Quadcopter. Please help me in case you are familiar with this topic.

what does your system need to do? Motor control, gyro's, gps etc?

What part do you need help with? Have you drawn a block diagram? Did you read books about vhdl or verilog? I see you naming the FPGA a processor but keep in mind it isn't a processor in the sense of a CPU. Also you don't write a program, you design hardware. Search this forum for books, there are some good book tips.

You should post in this forum and ask specific questions. Others will not do work for you, there are many companies that you can pay to do that for you. So, exactly what problems do you have?

Yes, sir. It needs to control: Motor, Gyro's, GPS, etc... i'm using Altera's Cyclone V FPGA Development board. The FPGA is meat to be the main processor of this Flight Control System. Please, help me if possible.

Thank you very much for your feedback. I have some basic knowledge about the FPGA and also some besics in VHDL, as i have been busy with this for the past 2 weeks. I have a Diagram of how i think the system should work. How can i send it to you, so you can view it? your email address maybe? Thanks in advance. Note: The FPGA will be used as a floating point for low level parallel processing and DSP will be used as a floating point for the high level serial processing. I need help with programming the FPGA to execute its task.

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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
Thank you very much.
That makes things clear for me.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
Just to clarify: I asked for the block diagram because those show how much thought has gone into designing. And us identifing a good starting point, such as the serial port or similar. In this case it showed a softcore cpu, which changes the viewpoint a bit.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
@Pietervanderstar could you please share your point of view with me based on how you think i should approach this project on VHDL.
Also, if you have any recommendation based on Books or Publications related to this project, i would highly appreciate.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
concerning the books: https://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41998
as for your project, you use a softcore thus you already have the serial port and memory controller. Then you need to think about how to handle the gps and "sensors" what is the interface to them? maybe the softcore has that interface as well. Then you only need to write software. If the interface is not on the nios then you can do two things, either writing a vhdl component to translate to another interface (usually GPIOs) or write software to emulate the interface using GPIOs.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
@PietervanderStar thanks for the Link. It's really useful.
Also thanks about the Project tips.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
8 years ago
Hi, guys.
The Cyclone V FPGA Development Board ( DE1-Board) comes with Dual Core ARM (HPS).

Is it possible to upload my ARM existing program written in C-Language, and use it in the Cyclone V FPGA development board (DE1-Board)....????
If yes, how to do this.

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