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- If you've already tinkered a bit with Arduino or Raspberry Pi, and you want to get more hands-on with hardware, or even if you're completely new to electronics and you just want to dive in, then Beginning FPGA is the book you need.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started with FPGA
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Front Matter
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Taking It Further: Talking to the Raspberry Pi and LED Displays
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About this book
Use Arrow's affordable and breadboard-friendly FPGA development board (BeMicro MAX 10) to create a light sensor, temperature sensor, motion sensor, and the KITT car display from Knight Rider.
You don't need an electronics engineering degree or even any programming experience to get the most out of Beginning FPGA: Programming Metal. Just bring your curiosity and your Field-Programmable Gate Array. This book is for those who have tinkered with Arduino or Raspberry Pi, and want to get more hands-on experience with hardware or for those new to electronics who just want todive in.
You'll learn the theory behind FPGAs and electronics, including the math and logic you need to understand what's happening - all explained in a fun, friendly, and accessible way. It also doesn't hurt that you'll be learning VHDL, a hardware description language that is also an extremely marketable skill.
What You'll Learn:
- Learn what an FPGA is and how it's different from a microcontroller or ASIC
- Set up your toolchain
- Use VHDL, a popular hardware description language, to tell your FPGA what to be
- Explore the theory behind FPGA and electronics
- Use your FPGA with a variety of sensors and to talk to a Raspberry Pi
Who This Book is For:
Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other electronics enthusiasts who want a clear and practical introduction to FPGA.
Authors and Affiliations
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Chelmsford, USA
Aiken Pang
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Flat 6B, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Peter Membrey
About the authors
Aiken Pang was born in Hong Kong in the early 80s just in time for the home micro-computer revolution. He developed an interest in computers after finding an Apple IIe at his uncle's home, installing a TV card, floppy drive and loaded his first game (Pacman) by himself at the age of 10. Since then he has taught himself a number of programming languages and built his own computers from scratch.
Aiken followed his passion for computing into more formal studies and holds a BEng in Electronics Engineering and an MSc in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell respectively. He has been using VHDL to design hardware in FPGAs for over 10 years.
He lives in the USA with his wife France and their daughter Mayah.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning FPGA: Programming Metal
Book Subtitle: Your brain on hardware
Authors: Aiken Pang, Peter Membrey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6248-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Aiken Pang and Peter Membrey 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-6247-3Published: 24 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-6248-0Published: 23 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 387
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 312 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Computer Science, general