Hi, My name is Afkarosman, I'm a third-year student in a Polytechnic doing Electronics, Computer and Communications. Currently on my last lap of doing FYP(Final Year Project). I was tasked to design a module to display numbers, characters and also user-defined patterns on the LCD of Altera DE2 Board. I was told to do ModelSim to start off. I am having some troubles starting the codes, as I have never done anything in VHDL, so this is basically my first time. I have read on some article but I'm still lost and clueless as what is to be done. If any of you guys could help me design a basic code to display a number to the LCD would really give me a jumpstart. It would be much appreciated thank you. Regards, Afkarosman
The main objective here in the forum is to "help someone to help himself". This requires at least a grade of knowledge which covers the issue at a level which allows one to lay a ground. Another case are issues, where one is quite educated regarding an issue but misses a single detail. Though, often people answer to questions like yours by posting code. But, - I am sorry -, the fact that you where assigned a project without having any experience or knowledge, is at least in need of an explanation. It could, for instance, mean that your task definitely includes acquiring knowledge about VHDL, in which case, simply posting code is a kind of help you cheating or that you, for whatever reason, missed the courses. However, I wish you success.
Hi Theor, Im glad you replied, well the thing is in this country I'm in, we third-year students in Polytechnic will have 3 months of FYP, either in development of a project or simply a new project to work on. It's a weird practice, but we are supposed to learn on our own the basics of a new language. To well give us the 'feeling' of how learning on your own feels. Some are needed to learn how to program using Arduino, some using Raspberry Pi. As for me, I have some knowledge of C languages as I have learned it since the start of year 1 but in alternate semesters. So a student being given a project that he/she has little or no knowledge of for their FYP is the norm here. I'm just 'lucky' to get a project to work on VHDL. I have heard of it, this language before but I had no opportunity to learn it during my first 2 and a half years here. They have given me some articles to read up on, but they did only little to help me. Why I asked for basic codes to just display to LCD is because I can maybe read up and reverse engineer on them and have the basic skeleton up the least. I too will be needing help from professionals like you guys to clarify some of my doubts if I have some. Nonetheless, I thank you for your time in reading this and also your doubts. I hope I got them clarified. Regards, Afkarosman
Afkar O. wrote: > I have never done anything in VHDL, so this is basically my first time. Ouch, then it is a very tricky and very steep start... > If any of you guys could help me design a basic code to display a number > to the LCD would really give me a jumpstart. It would be much > appreciated thank you. I would say, you should start very earlier: with a simple and stupid blinking LED. But if you simple want to copy some code you can try to adapt this here to your board: Beitrag "Re: EA DOG-M initialisieren" Its designed for a LCD with 4-bit interface on a Xilinx eval board, but with a little thinking its easily adapted to an 8-bit interface. One you must keep in mind: without any knowledge about the toolchain and the design process it is like driving a formula 1 car blindfolded...
Hi Lothar Miller, Thank you for your speedy reply. Yeah I do know that I'm going on about this blind. Nonetheless, thank you for the sources. I appreciate it. I did some snooping around of the previous student documents, managed to find her codes though. Maybe I can start from there? It would be much appreciated if you guys can check it out. She did a 24hour format clock. And only much I know of the codes, tried to get ahold of her but she seems to be overseas. Please tell me what I can use and what I cannot use from her codes? It might help me get to the next step. Regards, Afkarosman
Hi Afkar, (if not Osman is your first name), i appreciate your politeness and understanding of my motives. However, I am not convinced of your course of action. Even in case you where presented a code, you will not understand it nor being able to "reverse engineer" it if you do not have any knowledge and experience, at least with simple singleton cases. On the other hand, is a code describing output some characters on a LC-Display not very far away from, resp. "only" a special case, of some basic structures and description paradigms. It's natural that, in the beginning, the amount of details seems overwhelming and unmanageable. And using a hardware description language needs a profound, or at least non-trivial knowledge and experience in digital electronics as well. Hope, thats the case with you, as otherwise the learning curve would be steeper. But I am quite sure, that a project like yours may be finished within 3 months starting from a point I mentioned above, assumed that VHDL is the only new matter to you. A good survey about FPGAs at all may be found at https://www.altera.com/en_US/pdfs/literature/misc/FPGAs_For_Dummies_eBook.pdf but that does not cover VHDL. I searched for "VHDL for Dummies" which, among other hits, led me to: https://www.nandland.com/vhdl/tutorials/tutorial-introduction-to-vhdl-for-beginners.html As far as I can see at a glance, it covers most important basic details, which shall enable you to realize common digital combinatorial and basic sequential logic. You also seem to need, to get into the state machine paradigm and how it is realized in VHDL. Thats, what I expect you to need for the project. Some combinatorial logic which may sum up to some amount and at least one state machine (probably a combination of state machines is more appropriate to that project). You didnt mention the receiving part of the project (the part, which receives the information to be displayed) but if one assumes that being a simple rs232-interface for instance with some protocol, a state machine for byte decoding and line handling and another one for the protocol will suffice.
Afkar O. wrote: > Maybe I can start from there? Pls. post the files once more with file extension *.vhd instead of *.bak Then its able to have a look at that code. > Maybe I can start from there? Is it for the same hadrware platform? If so, then get that design to work. Then you can decide whether you can use it or not. But as I said: if you don't start with much more simple things you will be at loose ends every hour...
Hi Lothar Miller, Here are the files you requested. Thank you for taking the time to look into it. Regards, Afkarosman
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