Digital-Design-on-FPGA--VSDOpen21

About the tutorial workshop:

This course will be an in-depth hands-on demo session on the Virtual FPGA Lab using the open-source Makerchip IDE Web platform. The course will start with the introduction of why we need Virtual FPGA Lab and going through the Github repository. Then we will introduce the participants to Verilog. Theory is useful, but nothing beats practice!! We will design a 4-way traffic light controller using the concept of Finite State Machines in Verilog. We then visualize the output with LEDs and seven-segment displays in the Makerchip Virtual FPGA platform. Every part of this course has a theory followed by a lab.The student is required to have just a basic understanding of logic gates and no knowledge of the EDA tools is required.

Virtual FPGA Lab Github repo: Link

Section 1: Makerchip and Virtual FPGA Lab theory and Lab Setup

• Why Virtual FPGA Lab and FPGA programming
• Going through the GitHub repository
• About the project – Simple 4-way traffic controller – problem statement and end result
• Intro to LEDs and seven-segment – theory and lab

Section 2: 4-way traffic light controller design

• Introduction to Finite State Machines theory
• Verilog FSM implementation of traffic light controller design
• Integrate with LED and seven-segment

Labs Starting-Point Code:

Template code: Click here

LED starter: Click here

Seven segment display starter: Click here

Traffic light controller starter code: Click here