Xilinx and MiniZed board

Finally have a simple demo running on the PL (programmable logic) blinking the Red and Green LED.

Getting up to speed using Zync-7000 and Vivado (GUI) tool takes some time to get up to speed on.  Several weeks ago I took the the SpeedWay class, that was a great way to get an overall overview and help get a start on the MiniZed board.

Here is the led.c verilog (yes simple)

module led
#(
    parameter WIDTH = 24
   )
   (
    input wire Clk,
    input wire Reset,
    output  LED_G,
    output LED_R
    );
   
 integer counter = 0;
 reg LED_G_reg=0;
 reg LED_R_reg=0;
 
 assign LED_G = LED_G_reg;
 assign LED_R = LED_R_reg;

 always @(posedge Clk) begin
    /* if (Reset ==1 ) begin
        counter <= 0;
        LED_R_reg <=0;
        LED_G_reg <=0;
     end
     else */begin
 
            counter <= counter+1;
            LED_R_reg <= counter[23];
            LED_G_reg <= ~counter[23];
        end             
  end

endmodule


Some tips

• Linux with Wayland causes Vivado crash.  To work around this use X, hope they will fix it.
• Using a constraint file you must declare the output on the net list.  If not the block will not be generated.
• The Zynq PS clocks are used to drive the PL, so, must have a simple ARM program or init script to start the clocks.
• The MiniZed board is nice to use, low cost and has a lot of features to start learning FPGA or ARM (Linux or RTOS(FreeRTOS))

I can do a simple hello tutorial if requested.

Next steps:

1. Create a SWO trace/Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) demo on STM32 use using debug messages. Validate it is working using a logic anaylzer 
2. Create FPGA code to decode the Manchester bit stream and send it via DMA to the ARM-9 Cortex on the