README.md

Getting-started-with-FPGA

References to learning materials/tutorials for Digital circuits, HDL, and FPGA development.

Prerequisites (tools)

• EDA Playground -- Online HDL Editor/Simulator
• Vivado Design Suite -- A synthesis and analysis tool for AMD Xilinx FPGAs

0. Digital circuits

• Digital Circuits - Logic Gates
• Digital Combinational Circuits
• Digital Sequential Circuits
• Difference between Combinational and Sequential Circuit Explained

1. Hardware Description Language (HDL)

1.1. Verilog HDL

• Introduction to Verilog
• How to Write a Basic Verilog Module
• Verilog Data Types and Arrays
• Combinational Logic with assign
• Sequential Logic with always

1.2. Verilog RTL Simulation

• Verilog simulation
• How to Write a Basic Verilog Testbench

2. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

2.1. FPGA architecture

TBD

2.2. FPGA development

TBD

3. FPGA Design and Development

3.1. Vivado tutorials

• Vivado Design Suite Tutorial: Logic Simulation (UG937)
• WiP

3.2. EDA Playground tutorials

• EDA Playground Youtube tutorials

4. Use FPGA as Accelerators

4.1. Task offloading

• Fundamentals of FPGA acceleration

4.2. Programming model

• OpenCL programming model

4.3. Vitis (AMD Xilinx)

• Vitis Tutorials

4.4. AXI interfaces

• AXI Basics tutorials

5. Develop FPGA with High-level Languages

5.1. High-level Language Synthesis (HLS)

• Vitis HLS
• Vitis High-Level Synthesis User Guide (UG1399)

5.2. Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

• Chisel
  • Getting Started with Chisel

6. Other materials

6.1. Books

• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface (RISC-V Edition)
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124077263