Advanced Topics
Over the course of the book, you’ve had the opportunity to try your hand at a few different projects. We learned about combinational and sequential logic. We implemented state machines and designed, simulated, and built a calculator. We learned about clock domain crossing and timing. We discussed FPGA resources and implemented Random Access Memories (RAMs) and FIFO queues. We interfaced with an external temperature sensor and microphone and looked at viewing data using the ILA. We then looked at using floating point and fixed point representations for the temperature conversion as well as adding a smoothing function.
We also looked at packaging IP. We instantiated a Xilinx memory controller and implemented a simple VGA controller so we could see our work on a monitor. We added keyboard functionality and showed how we can use it to control our design by switching between Fahrenheit and Celsius as well as displaying the keycodes so we can see what happens...
