More expensive too.

Yeah they are really only better when you would be making an asic anyways haha

​@tainicon4639 nah. Especially in robotics fpga's are saver

@@erkamtb my point was you would only be using them in a comparably complex situation to merit the greater complexity and education needed to use them. Robotics is a perfect example of that :)

Yes of course, you can reate a vhdp file with "Component LED_Animation ([i/os]){[code]}" that you include as "NewComponent LED_Animation ([i/os]);" in the main file

Hi, we have an updated version of the blink tutorial. But I would first recommend the VHDP tutorials to get the language basics before you start with hardware projects

Here in the get started you see how to add modelsim: vhdplus.com/docs/getstarted/

A 100mbps and 1gbps ethernet Interfaces are in the Development. Trenz Electronic already has one ethernet cruvi Module

There are many applications where microcontrollers are a cheaper option, but the 30€ FPGA board has a way higher processing speed than 30€ arduino boards if you for example look at processing image data with neural networks in the last video on this channel. The robot example is maybe not the best one. With the additional power and flexibility, you can do more with the board and can use it for way more projects than what you can do with a microcontroller board. Often you also find a combination of an FPGA for high speed data processing and a microcontroller for the remaining tasks

It's not always about the end product but the journey to it.

If those were beer bottles that would be totally worth it

Hi, maybe the simulation time is chosen too high. In the code you have to specify a point where the clock stops and no signals change anymore, so ghdl stops simulating

For me it is more about the flexibility to always add more hardware without thinking about cycle times and multithreading. Also image processing is something that is more efficient of FPGAs

funny im working with a 2040 right now and just programming a BLDC controller (for a single motor) and i get to its limits because the cycle times are just too long for smooth operation at higher rpm's, even when splitting the work between both cores. i could use a bigger raspberry pi, but then there is no cost benefit compared to a cheap fpga, the software is awful and unreliable and it doesn't even have enough pwm outputs, so now i need to add another board which adds latency and complexity and.. man i think fpga's would've solved all my problems in the past and right now but i was just always too afraid of having to learn so much new stuff but not anymore IM GONNA BUY ONE NOW

well long answer short: i think you're extremely overestimating the capabilities of a 2040. its a good chip if you have one sensor or one output that operate at low frequencies, and not much more.

@@はいこれはロボ子の婚約者 are you making use of the PIOs or just driving it from the main cores? because that looks like an application for the PIOs...

We will check this for the next video, thank you

Yes the code works. But you have to click on Build/Convert to VHDL and then compile the VHDL code in Vivado

Thanks, in the Pros and University video you see how to use different FPGAs. Every FPGA from Intel/Altera should work

@@vhdplus Thank you very much for your feedback 😁. Could you please send me the link of the video you refers to? Thank you in advance for your precious support 😊. Kind regards 😇

The link is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2UYaevlLmLo.html Its our 3. last video on the youtube channel

@@vhdplus Hello, thank you very much for your feedback 😁. I'll check the video. Have a nice week 😄. Cordially 😊

Yes with a bigger microcontroller, this would be possible. I still like programming with FPGAs more because you always have enough performance no matter how many sensors and actors you add. And for me, FPGA programming became even simpler than microcontrollers. You don't have to think about which pin you use, if you have the right interfaces, and programming with an RTOS is more abstract

No, there are several examples where microcontrollers are not fast enough. So in many products are FPGAs or ASIC that were first designed with FPGAs

We use the newest drivers and also older MAX1000 work fine

Tbh I think that a lot of this will improve in the coming 6 months, since atm I am still very busy improving the software itself. Hopefully we can hire someone to improve our website and tutorials soon.

@@hendrikmennen3966 Fair enough. I don't seem to have learned a lot about FPGAs in the last 6 months, so I can wait. I'll try to keep the questions to a minimum, so you can get on with it.

Did you see the MAX1000 video? There we show how to open the plotter

Yes we changed that in the newer videos. Currently we are more working on improving the IDE, but new tutorials will follow

@@vhdplus Good. I'm not quite grasping it, at the moment. I'll keep coming back to the ones that are here, anyway.

Yes I would recommend to Import existing projects and don't define the pins for your fpga. The pin connection feature is mainly for the supported development boards

@@vhdplus Thanks. I was picturing importing just the pins definitions from an existing project into a new project... I see there's a problem with trying to use it with all the different FPGAs I have though - I'd forgotten that support for the Cyclone II and Cyclone III was dropped after 13.0sp1. I guess I'd still have to use Quartus for those.

@@TooSlowTube You can use the VHDPlus IDE with all quartus versions

@@vhdplus I can see I can set a different Quartus version, in the settings, but can I use the VHDPlus language with older versions of Quartus? It seems if I import a verilog project all I can do with it is look at the code or open it in Quartus. I'm not clear how to do anything more than that, with chips that aren't supported directly.

@@TooSlowTube hey, i'm trying to import board files as well, i downloaded mine from a zip from Vivado, with a board.xml, a part0_pins.xml, etc. but what do you mean import from a project?

You can add more chips to the menu (like shown in the IDE for Professionals Video). More development boards come in future updates

Arrow MAX1000 is the same board, you can use it.

@@hendrikmennen3966 Great. Thanks. I missed seeing that reply, before. Arrow seem to have discontinued theirs. I may order one or two of yours, at some point, but your shop being in Germany makes it more difficult. Things I import are subject to being held hostage by the post office, if the VAT hasn't been paid on them. They then demand a ransom from me, plus the VAT, before letting me collect them.

Yes VHDL code is created and quartus compiles everything in VHDL. The interface for other languages and the intel libraries to interface the ARM core also work like in vhdl

@@vhdplus Thanks. I'm still not quite getting the advantages to using this over just Quartus, but the first two videos I watched really just played as adverts, with too much sell and too little information content. I realise I need to read the documentation, which I haven't got to yet. I started with a few examples in Verilog. I guess I could learn VHDL as well / instead since I haven't really got very far with it, yet.

@@TooSlowTube This video is terribly outdated. Many things have changed since then. We should really improve our documentation and make some new videos

@@hendrikmennen3966 That would be good. The tutorials I've watched so far are promising. I'm having trouble keeping up with the pace, and having to squint a bit on my 768 line monitor, but they're clearer than some I've watched. Maybe go through the others and ask yourselves "Does this explain anything, or is it just a hard sell?" I don't mean to be overly critical, but there really is no place on RU-vid for that style of advertising. People watch because they want to learn from you. It's not just that there's no need for it, it's really quite off putting. I'd suggest the channel intro video should be a short description of what VHDLPlus is, and why there's an advantage to using it, rather than just sticking with Quartus and a text editor. I'm still wondering about that :)

Yes the title was misleading, thanks for pointing this out. This video should only be a teaser for this youtube channel. For more information I would recommend the video from the Maker Fair where I talk about why we started this project

We rely on other Software (ghdl, vhdl language server, modelsim, quartus) that have to support vhdl 2019. But I think vhdl 2019 with ghdl should work first

Hi, programming, simulation... is no problem. You will just have to compile in vivado

@@vhdplus Ok thank you

You have the links in the video description or you just look on vhdplus.com

But in the shop there are only a few MAX1000 left. Otherwise you can take the Core MAX10 (Because of a shortage of FPGA chips the prices are also rising at the moment)

I would recommend the Core MAX10 or the MAX1000

Currently there is only an internal Flash but we will make a video soon on how to use the big external flash

The most videos on this channel are about the features of this board (the Core MAX10 has almost the same hardware). For example: #3 Debugging, #4 Internal ADC, #7 Simulation and Arduino on FPGA

You can use the created VHDL files for the tiny fpga bx and most libraries are standard VHDL. To use all functions you could have a look at the 27$ MAX1000 board. This is also very small, has an onboard programmer, but has a lot of other features like an onboard ADC, SDRAM...

@@vhdplus thank you.