"The LED on my FPGA board started blinking in Morse Codes displaying SOS, which means that everything worked out correctly." Hmm... I don't know whether to be concerned for Scott or the -sweatshop- manufacturers...
@@aakashjana6225 I think it's meant to show what fun you can have learning about these. Not meant as a tutorial or so, just as inspiration for those looking for a fun project or so.
That's awesome. I think you may have inspired me to get back into these little beastys after about 25 years. It looks much easier than it used to be. Great video
Amazing explation as usual. Been a fan for a long time. These projects keep a person sane in a time like this and you learn at the same time . 😁 WIN! WIN! ✌🏼🙏🏻
I recently figured out hdmi on a xilinx fpga as well. Honestly only 2 pages of code once I got my head around it .. Can provide details if needed Vga is old hat now :)
_Lolucoca_ vga is ‘just’ analog voltage to control brifgtness for each rgb colour channel, plus careful timing. Not too hard once you read up a bit and ‘click’ .. like again a page or two of codevin C even can expeess it All of these descend from tv in a lot of ways so there is consistency in concept Hdmi is a little trickier as they added some magic and also kept all the docs behind walls. There is a lot to it of you get into it - hdcp and all those security and audi protocols and so on. But if you go to its most basic tv modes and lower resolutions it will permit aimpler operation - its a layered protocol where you establish a link and add on layers of function. At its simplest its nearly just like vga .. you can get like 720p at 60hz as long as your timingis feeding out the pixel values on the right clock. Its digital instead of analog so timing is enormously more precise, hence why fpga is odeal and not a slow chip like most mcu Its also not using single wire for the levels, but differential pair (which many fpga directly support). Fofferential pair is a plus and minus wire and the delta is a pulse. So you need 3 pairs (rgb) and a pair for clock, and theres a little funny credit card chrcksum like thing you do to pad out the bits so it can sync or checksum or someyhing. But thats it - you need a crazy high clock (I forget .. 600MHz or something) and pump out the rgb values in digital. Its just fpga verilog is another step past what normal code is like and historically fpga and verilog books and kits are expensive as hell. But the last uear teat boards and chips came way way down in proce and old books are cheap on the market..
@@skeezixcodejedi I also would like the see the code. Can you post it on pastebin or github etc? EDIT: Maybe you can do a blog post or a write up somewhere. Would be really interesting.
Great video, once again! Like always, very informative without getting too sophisticated. And by the way, it shows a great sense of humour, to let the chip blink SOS to say "everything worked out correctly"
Nice introductory video. When you showed the Arty board I nearly fell of my chair while screaming. Not only Xilinx FPGAs are overkill for beginners, the prices are too high, especially the in case of the Digilent dev boards. Then you showed the Lattice FPGA with a completely open source board, and development environment, and I instantly calmed down. I've been using FPGAs for years. Xilinx, Intel, Microsemi, Lattice. Nowadays I'm only using Lattice, it has the right amount of resources, the right price, and an amazingly helpful community. Oh and those Tiny FPGAs are pure gem. When the new EX version comes out I will surely buy it.
GreatScott, very good introduction to tiny FPGA bx .I recalled 5 yrs ago when xillins donated FPGA to my Diploma/secondary engineering school without training .I tried to self-learning through Internet for 3 days and finally gave up !! The price of FPGA and one day professional training are extremely expensive and even the university professors are layman/greenHorn in 2015 ! Today 2020 ,I started to see TinyFpgaBx ,simplified version for Beginners. It was similar to Arduino(invented in 2003 by Italians ,Raspberry Pi invented in UK ) .All are cheap versions for Primary School Toy now.The FPGA will becoming the Secondary School Toy soon ( 2020 many University Engineering Starts to teach U-degree courses, BSc,MSc,Phd ). Thus with Cheap Fpda , future youngsters will create their own computer, microprocessor, CPU, GPU ,SoC,Qbit/quantumComputer...etc. Thanks for your sharing knowledge .
This video reminded me to some time ago when I learned VHDL at university! The Pong project was a great throwback. Do you plan to do more videos on the FPGA theme? I’d love to see some more :)
man i remember watching you making a radio years ago. i even asked who listen to radio still and you answered for some reason (me being an entitled idiot back then, thinking if i don't use it who should). this might be the first project i might sit down and start doing my self. i really enjoy your content keep it up!!!
DUDE! I've always wanted to get into fpga! this is awesome! I love the fact that the fpga is in a frendly arduino like form factor! and its cheap! thanks for the video! keep it up!
Interesting video! I'm implementing Ben Eater's 8-bit computer in an FPGA on my channel in a series of videos. A VGA display is one thing I plan to implement after expanding the computer to be able to use it.
you are awesome man !!!! please elaborate more about FPGA and how to use it to control DC motors indeed man u r brilliant love you appreciate your effort and knowledge
Wow! A great video!! I didn't know there were so many resources available on this topic. It's not for me at the moment but I'll definitely save it on my playlist. :)
In my Electrical Engineering class we designed this controller using SystemVerilog. I would be more than happy to supply my version to anyone who wanted to dig deeper...
Good job detailing all of the basic steps like installing atom and installing extensions; I remember frustrating over that stuff when I was a beginner, very valuable stuff!
This channel is just amazing! I would love if you eventually do a video a bit different, talking about you, what got you in this beautiful field of electronics and engineering, what do you do besides this channel in the professional sense, and maybe some tips and advice for new students (as me) on this field who would love to know what we could achieve in our careers.
So head over to Mike Field's Hamsterworks site, and grab his ebook. Then go look for 'Free Range VHDL' also a good free ebook. Then just stop messing about and get started. But be warned - if you're any kind of programmer, VHDL will do your head. Can't comment on Verilog, don't use it. Oh - and those schematic capture IDE's - yes. But see how quickly it got out of hand? Visual Basic anyone? Just bite the bullet and learn to code...
Sweet, I didn't know such small (and easily usable) fpga boards were already available. The Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 seemed promising at first, until I've read that you could only use predefined fpga modules, which prevented me to look into this for a long time. Anyways, these miniature boards should be a lot easier to incorporate into projects in contrast to those Xilinx/Altera dev-boards I used to work with.
The youtube algorithm continues to impress me. Yeah I watch tech videos, yours even. But to recommend this to me RIGHT after I watched a video disassembling a tube TV, and a few days after watching pi pico videos.... they just knew I have everything to do this...
I recently started plying with FPGAs, and it is fun. System Verilog has vary similar syntax with C, so designing the circuit is basically like programming.
Das ist genau das Video, was ich mir lange ersehnt habe! Dank' dir, bitte bitte gern mehr dazu! Gibt ja auch VGA Output via ESP32 (FabGL Library) wirklich toll dass du dich dem nun auch widmest!
Good video.... you managed to give a good overview of FPGA without either over-simplifying or over-complexifying..... You could have gone into a bit more detail with the VGA stuff though... I'd love to see someone go into the level of detail that Ben Eater did with his "World's worst VGA" series... but for a better FPGA solution. Another option here is to use a Parallax Propeller microController.... relatively cheap and drives a VGA rather well. These boards do look interesting though, especially as you can use entirely open-source (and therefore "Linux friendly") tools to develop and program their "B-series" boards.
I was going to mention Arty board that I used to output VGA, and then you showed it. Well, I only used the sample program that they have for it and I don’t really know how to do stuff myself on it. (Also the VGA adapter digilent sells for it only has a couple bits for each R G B signal.)
Really informative video! I had an idea of what FPGA's were from watching a couple of videos on the EEVBlog, but this explained things in a much simpler way to understand. May have to get myself one!
I managed to get a VGA display from a teensy, but my code was not the best and all I could do is display a basic pattern. A lot of people use pic to make TV rgb testers. The Ben Eater video was so good as explaining the way vga worked, I am happy to see you talk about it on the comments. Perhaps you could recreate his ttl logic setup in this fpga ?
Surely hope this is just a toe-in-the-water. A great introduction, but I would like to see a great deal more. Gonna check the budget ( $ and time ) to see what I can do on my own for now. Thanks for another thought provoking video.
Felix B agreed, I was looking forward to the implementation details of actually driving the VGA signal, and rather disappointed that there was only downloading someone else's code, and remarking "this looks complicated", not at least digging into the schematic of the project in detail
Wow, these are expensive. The only TinyFPGA I could find on ebay was your BX version and it was approximately $71CAD + $19CAD to ship. I guess this is something I'll learn about another time.
I have to dig up the vhdl I used to create a basic vga/cga output on a digilent Spartan dev board years ago.. (output was limited since there was no dac)
Groovy stuff! Will it be possible to create energy harvesting solutions in fpga? My dream is to have 400to 230V converter and be able to power the fridge.. Charging 5V devices is easy. All best!
i used that same VGA Adapter for my DE0 Nano VGA driver ! I wanna replicate ben eaters in the future in VHDL or Verilog, im saving FPGA stuff for the future simple VGA was the last thing i did
Great video. Thank you. Can you please do a video about how to drive and program for vacuum fluorescent displays, which I think are much nicer than LCD. Thank you
Ben Eater also has a great video on driving a vga
Yep, I saw them. Great stuff :-)
I saw the vid, he used discrete logic chips, however, instead of an FPGA
He used 6 74ls161 9 8 input nanda gate(74ls30) 4 74ls04
2 74ls00
And one eeprom
He is good at logics though
Ben used low-level components; he came as close to creating a video-card out of paperclips and gum as anyone probably ever will. 👍
"The LED on my FPGA board started blinking in Morse Codes displaying SOS, which means that everything worked out correctly."
Hmm...
I don't know whether to be concerned for Scott or the -sweatshop- manufacturers...
HMMMMMM...
@@anonymouspuppy H . . . - - - . . .
Thought exactly the same thing!
Stop the video at 5:45. The demo code shows a "blink_pattern" variable set to SOS in binary.
HTH
German: receives SOS
German: Alles ist good... need to submerge and find next one.
I always get goosebumps when I see that you highlight 2-3 times and the paper start to bend a little bit due to excess humidity.
I cringe when he goes over stuff with the highlighter more than once and then the black starts to bleed 😂😭 , dope video though like always !!!
Finally someone who mentions that! That's absolutely barbaric : ^ )
I came here for this comment. Please stop doing that, greatscott!
it must bleed!
Pickle Rick agreed, i like it
oh, just commented about that as well 🙃
Thanks @GreatScott! for your reference to my "Pong" project. :)
It remained to test the "sound card" in the video. ;)
"Made by juanmarch" xD olé viva Málaga
@@ELPiTiFOR ¡Viva! xD
@@juanmarico8810 algún correo de contacto de usted. Saludos.
You went from turning a led on and of with a t-flip flop to driving a VGA display and playing pong _real fast_
are still not past the led on off? :D
Ah the power of example projects! haha
That too with a building block software lol. He just wanted to make a fun video and not spend too much time i guess.
@@aakashjana6225 I think it's meant to show what fun you can have learning about these. Not meant as a tutorial or so, just as inspiration for those looking for a fun project or so.
That's awesome. I think you may have inspired me to get back into these little beastys after about 25 years. It looks much easier than it used to be. Great video
Amazing explation as usual. Been a fan for a long time. These projects keep a person sane in a time like this and you learn at the same time . 😁 WIN! WIN! ✌🏼🙏🏻
Your level of details in video is quite unique. The way you even described the type of blinking at 6:22. Loved it!
I recently figured out hdmi on a xilinx fpga as well. Honestly only 2 pages of code once I got my head around it ..
Can provide details if needed
Vga is old hat now :)
aim1090@yahoo.com
How'd you get your head around all these protocols?
_Lolucoca_ vga is ‘just’ analog voltage to control brifgtness for each rgb colour channel, plus careful timing. Not too hard once you read up a bit and ‘click’ .. like again a page or two of codevin C even can expeess it
All of these descend from tv in a lot of ways so there is consistency in concept
Hdmi is a little trickier as they added some magic and also kept all the docs behind walls. There is a lot to it of you get into it - hdcp and all those security and audi protocols and so on. But if you go to its most basic tv modes and lower resolutions it will permit aimpler operation - its a layered protocol where you establish a link and add on layers of function.
At its simplest its nearly just like vga .. you can get like 720p at 60hz as long as your timingis feeding out the pixel values on the right clock. Its digital instead of analog so timing is enormously more precise, hence why fpga is odeal and not a slow chip like most mcu
Its also not using single wire for the levels, but differential pair (which many fpga directly support). Fofferential pair is a plus and minus wire and the delta is a pulse.
So you need 3 pairs (rgb) and a pair for clock, and theres a little funny credit card chrcksum like thing you do to pad out the bits so it can sync or checksum or someyhing.
But thats it - you need a crazy high clock (I forget .. 600MHz or something) and pump out the rgb values in digital.
Its just fpga verilog is another step past what normal code is like and historically fpga and verilog books and kits are expensive as hell. But the last uear teat boards and chips came way way down in proce and old books are cheap on the market..
Jeff Mitchell I’d love to see the code! Can you share it? My email address: hugondon9@gmail.com
@@skeezixcodejedi I also would like the see the code. Can you post it on pastebin or github etc?
EDIT: Maybe you can do a blog post or a write up somewhere. Would be really interesting.
You posted this video exactly when i finished my project :P
What project was it ?
@@sparshdhiman72 a small invertor
Can u post a video about ur project
Shadow the nightfury cool! Did it work ?
@@bhagyadezoysa5040 no sorry
Excellent project
Great video, once again! Like always, very informative without getting too sophisticated.
And by the way, it shows a great sense of humour, to let the chip blink SOS to say "everything worked out correctly"
Nice introductory video. When you showed the Arty board I nearly fell of my chair while screaming. Not only Xilinx FPGAs are overkill for beginners, the prices are too high, especially the in case of the Digilent dev boards. Then you showed the Lattice FPGA with a completely open source board, and development environment, and I instantly calmed down. I've been using FPGAs for years. Xilinx, Intel, Microsemi, Lattice. Nowadays I'm only using Lattice, it has the right amount of resources, the right price, and an amazingly helpful community. Oh and those Tiny FPGAs are pure gem. When the new EX version comes out I will surely buy it.
Thank you for your video, you seem to be "breathless" (not "brushless" like the motors), stay safe and good recovery !
GreatScott, very good introduction to tiny FPGA bx .I recalled 5 yrs ago when xillins donated FPGA to my Diploma/secondary engineering school without training .I tried to self-learning through Internet for 3 days and finally gave up !! The price of FPGA and one day professional training are extremely expensive and even the university professors are layman/greenHorn in 2015 ! Today 2020 ,I started to see TinyFpgaBx ,simplified version for Beginners. It was similar to Arduino(invented in 2003 by Italians ,Raspberry Pi invented in UK ) .All are cheap versions for Primary School Toy now.The FPGA will becoming the Secondary School Toy soon ( 2020 many University Engineering Starts to teach U-degree courses, BSc,MSc,Phd ). Thus with
Cheap Fpda , future youngsters will create their own computer, microprocessor, CPU, GPU ,SoC,Qbit/quantumComputer...etc. Thanks for your sharing knowledge .
This is the future I desire :)
This video reminded me to some time ago when I learned VHDL at university! The Pong project was a great throwback. Do you plan to do more videos on the FPGA theme? I’d love to see some more :)
I will see what I can do 😁
man i remember watching you making a radio years ago. i even asked who listen to radio still and you answered for some reason (me being an entitled idiot back then, thinking if i don't use it who should).
this might be the first project i might sit down and start doing my self.
i really enjoy your content keep it up!!!
DUDE! I've always wanted to get into fpga! this is awesome! I love the fact that the fpga is in a frendly arduino like form factor! and its cheap! thanks for the video! keep it up!
That's something new to learn in this quarantine!
Interesting video! I'm implementing Ben Eater's 8-bit computer in an FPGA on my channel in a series of videos. A VGA display is one thing I plan to implement after expanding the computer to be able to use it.
This looks like a nice way to learn fpga. Thanks, GreatScott
you are awesome man !!!!
please elaborate more about FPGA and how to use it to control DC motors
indeed man u r brilliant
love you
appreciate your effort and knowledge
Wow! A great video!! I didn't know there were so many resources available on this topic. It's not for me at the moment but I'll definitely save it on my playlist. :)
Thanks for the feedback :-)
Always loved watching your videos, cheers from the country that manufactured the chip. 🇲🇾
In my Electrical Engineering class we designed this controller using SystemVerilog. I would be more than happy to supply my version to anyone who wanted to dig deeper...
Good job detailing all of the basic steps like installing atom and installing extensions; I remember frustrating over that stuff when I was a beginner, very valuable stuff!
This channel is just amazing!
I would love if you eventually do a video a bit different, talking about you, what got you in this beautiful field of electronics and engineering, what do you do besides this channel in the professional sense, and maybe some tips and advice for new students (as me) on this field who would love to know what we could achieve in our careers.
Why would someone dislike such a great educational video!
People are weird. Maybe they just missed the like button because they were so amazed.
I learned FPGA basics from the nandland video channel. Thanks from Colorado and good luck!
This is my favourite kind of video. Please do more videos about FPGA and Arduino alternatives.
I was waiting for this video after I saw it in the GreatScott! Facebook page.
Got my first FPGA kit today, driving a scope in X/Y/Z mode for a green/white image is on my list
I did not know that such components like FPGA´s even exists, thanks for teaching me new stuff ;)
Even Arduino has an FPGA www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MKRVidor4000
I always has been interested in FPGA, with your aproach will be more easy, thank you
Cool! I've been hoping you'd do a video on FPGA's, I have a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA development board waiting for a good use!
So head over to Mike Field's Hamsterworks site, and grab his ebook. Then go look for 'Free Range VHDL' also a good free ebook. Then just stop messing about and get started. But be warned - if you're any kind of programmer, VHDL will do your head. Can't comment on Verilog, don't use it. Oh - and those schematic capture IDE's - yes. But see how quickly it got out of hand? Visual Basic anyone? Just bite the bullet and learn to code...
Sweet, I didn't know such small (and easily usable) fpga boards were already available. The Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 seemed promising at first, until I've read that you could only use predefined fpga modules, which prevented me to look into this for a long time.
Anyways, these miniature boards should be a lot easier to incorporate into projects in contrast to those Xilinx/Altera dev-boards I used to work with.
The youtube algorithm continues to impress me. Yeah I watch tech videos, yours even. But to recommend this to me RIGHT after I watched a video disassembling a tube TV, and a few days after watching pi pico videos.... they just knew I have everything to do this...
Whole world upset on sitting at home....
Meanwhile Scott : Finally I have time to complete all my pending projects 🙃
True😅
@@greatscottlab dude I'm jealous. I can't do electronics or robotics since I need materials from Manila which is currently in lockdown. I'm bored
@@wunderwaffeyt4077 Make the plans now.
@@oniruddhoalam2039 already done dude. I just need the materials
after a long time you have created a nice video
I always looking for an FPGA project explanation as you did
10:31 juanmard made me the day😂😂
Thank you great Scott!! This was really useful and interesting! I want to play with fpga now! 😊
I really, really loved this video. I'd really like a bunch more videos demonstrating the TinyFPGA :D
I recently started plying with FPGAs, and it is fun. System Verilog has vary similar syntax with C, so designing the circuit is basically like programming.
thats what i am talking about.!! we want more fpga things! I know you are different from other ardiono geeks.
Useful video for fpga beginners
Das ist genau das Video, was ich mir lange ersehnt habe! Dank' dir, bitte bitte gern mehr dazu! Gibt ja auch VGA Output via ESP32 (FabGL Library) wirklich toll dass du dich dem nun auch widmest!
Good "teaser", I guess we'll have more videos about FPGA and this development kit.
I once had to make a microprocessor based on a FPGA for a project in the university (RAM, ALU, I/O, etc). It was very... ¿Educative? and fun.
Thank you for this video and all the links, your videos are great
Nice, I am Fan of your discoveries..
Thank You for the FPGA learning website, it will help me in the project that i am doing.
And as always... great content! Love your channel 🤘
Super cool! This video brings FPGAs in to the realm of hobbyists!
Would Love to see more on using FPGA for video application.
Good video.... you managed to give a good overview of FPGA without either over-simplifying or over-complexifying..... You could have gone into a bit more detail with the VGA stuff though... I'd love to see someone go into the level of detail that Ben Eater did with his "World's worst VGA" series... but for a better FPGA solution.
Another option here is to use a Parallax Propeller microController.... relatively cheap and drives a VGA rather well.
These boards do look interesting though, especially as you can use entirely open-source (and therefore "Linux friendly") tools to develop and program their "B-series" boards.
Interersting project
Nice of you to Bitluni's channel
Thanks for sharing :-)
This is awesome. Thank you for doing this video. I wanted to do this for a while now.
Brooo, this is amazing!!
3:52 Mumbo Jumbo joined the chat
7:34 Mumbo Jumbo says: "Nice"
lol
Minecraft redstone engineers rise up !
shut up
I was going to mention Arty board that I used to output VGA, and then you showed it. Well, I only used the sample program that they have for it and I don’t really know how to do stuff myself on it. (Also the VGA adapter digilent sells for it only has a couple bits for each R G B signal.)
Really informative video! I had an idea of what FPGA's were from watching a couple of videos on the EEVBlog, but this explained things in a much simpler way to understand. May have to get myself one!
Very nice introduction to FPGS 👍
Incredibly useful in virus time gotta learn fpga
Please finish the Bike Security system! We waited so long!!!
It is already done. Patreon supporter can watch it for a week now. It will go public next week.
@@greatscottlab ok thanks Maybe I should support you;). Keep your work up! Greetings from Germany👍
Awesome! I can't wait to hook one of those up to the 6502 system I'm working on!
Got an ad for arduino based fpgas before your video 😂
i achieved VGA driving with my DE0-Nano & Quartus 2 with the fpga4fun website tutorial. That website is perfect for fpga noobs.
Great project nice
Hey Scott buy a CRT TV and make a retro ping-pong game with FPGA and put the FPGA inside the crt
We are studying VHDL language at the university. I was thinking that it is useless nowadays but then I've seen this video!
What course are you taking?
I managed to get a VGA display from a teensy, but my code was not the best and all I could do is display a basic pattern. A lot of people use pic to make TV rgb testers. The Ben Eater video was so good as explaining the way vga worked, I am happy to see you talk about it on the comments. Perhaps you could recreate his ttl logic setup in this fpga ?
Super presentation ! 👍👍👍
Thanks !
nice project i hope you dive more on the fpga topic! cheers
I'm looking forward to more complex fpga projects. Like even generating hdmi signals.
Yeeey! Let's popularize FPGA in DIY projects 😀
Surely hope this is just a toe-in-the-water. A great introduction, but I would like to see a great deal more. Gonna check the budget ( $ and time ) to see what I can do on my own for now. Thanks for another thought provoking video.
Wish you could make an hour long tutorial video about FPGA, well atleast I will learn FPGA while sitting in quarantine in my home...😆
❤ Very good man ! Thanks😊
Wow! Great Video
Thanks :-)
You mispelled "display" in the thumbnail. Nice video anyways, keep up the work!
Already fixed it.
@@greatscottlab nice!
I was wondering if you know bitluni in person?! Following your channel since some time. Great content, keep it up!
well explained about FPGA. thanks.
Great Video as always, but I have to admit that I was kind of disappointed to see that you used another project in the end.
Felix B agreed, I was looking forward to the implementation details of actually driving the VGA signal, and rather disappointed that there was only downloading someone else's code, and remarking "this looks complicated", not at least digging into the schematic of the project in detail
Wow, these are expensive. The only TinyFPGA I could find on ebay was your BX version and it was approximately $71CAD + $19CAD to ship. I guess this is something I'll learn about another time.
Staying creative, you stay too!
Can you maybe get and review the Voltera V-One, its a circuit board printer that won the Dyson award, looks cool and might be useful for you.
@GreatScott
Look up
Ben Eater's video on making a video card.
Very informative on how to send an image to a monitor.
I have to dig up the vhdl I used to create a basic vga/cga output on a digilent Spartan dev board years ago.. (output was limited since there was no dac)
Nice video you've inspired me a lot.
Groovy stuff!
Will it be possible to create energy harvesting solutions in fpga? My dream is to have 400to 230V converter and be able to power the fridge..
Charging 5V devices is easy.
All best!
This guys should get a NETFLIX series where he builds really cool projects!!
i used that same VGA Adapter for my DE0 Nano VGA driver ! I wanna replicate ben eaters in the future in VHDL or Verilog, im saving FPGA stuff for the future simple VGA was the last thing i did
Great video. Thank you. Can you please do a video about how to drive and program for vacuum fluorescent displays, which I think are much nicer than LCD. Thank you
Subbed for your handwriting.
Superb Sir
Good guide, Learn a lot ~
Very satisfying
I just realized that this is exactly his 300th video. Happy 300th Video Celebration I guess...lol