A.L.S.E the FPGA Experts

Floating Points in FPGAs

2024-02-28T10:58:01Z

Are you tempted about using Floating Point vectors (“Reals”) in your next FPGA project ? Can this be done ? How ? Is it a good idea ?

Then this Application Note (an extract from our FPGA Design Training course) is for you…

UARTs & RS232

2024-02-13T11:57:34Z

In 2024, some may consider that UARTs (and RS232) are a thing of the past.
They couldn't be more wrong !

An RS232 link is the simplest way to exchange any kind of information between to points ! From the simplest microprocessors to the most complex Systems On Chips and Embedded processors, all have at least one UART. This is a fundamental means to monitor and debug a system.

And, good news !
* A UART is very simple to design in an FPGA.
* It is a very small block easy to add in a nearly full FPGA.
* It can run at very high speeds, easily at 1 Mega bauds.

This Application Note will teach all you need to know from the low level physical protocol to the designing your own UART in any FPGA !

RS232 & UARTs Basics

Using the LT24 / ILI9341

2022-09-07T11:18:53Z

This (2017) complete Application Note shows how to control the LT24 LCD Display from an FPGA kit. Even if you use a different LCD controller, or a different FPGA kit, you could be interested in the techniques used in this Application Note.

Gowin

2022-09-07T10:51:01Z

If you just bought the TEC0117 GOWIN LittleBee FPGA module, you can follow this small Application Note to go through the whole process of setting up the Gowin tools, creating a simple project and testing it on the FPGA board.
If you don't have the board, you can still follow the step to have a view of the Gowin design flow.

This small and simple Application Note was created since the available Gowin documentation is spread over many documents and videos.

Note : the TEC0117 GOWIN LittleBee FPGA module should be available again from Trenz Electronic mid-April 2024.

Whether you have the module or not, you can follow the steps to discover the Gowin FPGA design flow. This document has been update end Feb 2024.

Designing for Stratix 10 & Agilex FPGAs

2017-08-16T12:21:19Z

The Intel 14 nm Stratix 10, and even more the newer Intel 10 nm Agilex FPGA families offer unprecedented performance.

However, taking full advantage of these architectures and associated design tools requires to adopt new design techniques and use a new generation of tools. We have the proper trainings offer to help customers.

This ApNote is merely an illustration of how to achieve simply good performance with little efforts. Ultimate performance will require more efforts, but starting from a sound design will always help.