FPGA Tutorials

Tutorials to get you started and improve your design skills. See also Recommended FPGA sites.

Graphics

Learn graphics at the hardware level and improve your FPGA design skills:

• Beginning FPGA Graphics - video signals and basic graphics
• Racing the Beam - simple demo effects with minimal logic
• FPGA Pong - recreate the classic arcade on an FPGA
• Display Signals - revisit display signals and meet colour palettes
• Hardware Sprites - fast, colourful graphics for games
• Framebuffers - bitmap graphics featuring Michelangelo’s David
• Lines and Triangles - drawing lines and triangles
• 2D Shapes - filled shapes and simple pictures
• Animated Shapes - animation and double-buffering

Hello

An introduction to FPGA development and Verilog with the Digilent Arty or Nexys Video boards:

• Part 1: Hello Arty 1 & Hello Nexys 1
• Part 2: Hello Arty 2 & Hello Nexys 2
• Part 3: Hello Arty 3

Maths and Algorithms

The latest Project F tutorial series:

• Numbers in Verilog - introduction to numbers in Verilog
• Vectors and Arrays - working with Verilog vectors and arrays
• Multiplication with DSPs - efficient FPGA multiplication
• Fixed-Point Numbers - precision without complexity
• Division in Verilog - divided we stand
• More maths soon

How To

Handy recipes for solving FPGA problems. See the Tools page for FPGA dev and testing tools.

Hardware & Devices

• SPRAM on iCE40 FPGA - use SPRAM with Yosys and compare it with Block RAM
• Memory Types - understand FPGA memory types, including BRAM, HBM, SRAM, and DRAM
• Initialize Memory in Verilog - use $readmemh and $readmemb to initialize RAM or ROM
• Video Timings: VGA, SVGA, 720p, 1080p - work with standard monitors and TVs

Maths

See the new Maths Tutorials for topics including vectors, fixed-point numbers, division, and DSPs.

• Sine & Cosine - lookup sine and cosine from ROM
• Square Root - calculate square roots for integers and fixed-point

Get in touch with @WillFlux or join me on GitHub Discussions and 1BitSquared Discord.