Assignments

FPGA Pendulum Waves (Digital IO)

We are going to implement a digital version of the beautiful Pendulum Waves Experiment.

1. Extend the LED_blink example to use 8 independent counters for every LED of your Redpitaya-125-14 with independently controllable counter incr but common resetn.

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ℹ️ The AXI GPIO IP features only 2 register outputs. For more register outputs please use multiple instances of this IP or replace it by a AXI4 Register Bank IP instance, which has up to 16 independent register inputs/outputs.

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2. Extend the LED_blink.ipynb Jupyter Notebook to configure LED frequencies of the type:

   f[i] = f0 + i * df

   for i=0,1...,7 and where f0 is the base frequency and df the frequency increment.

PWM (Digital IO & Simulation)

In this assignment we are going to develop a Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) module.

1. Based on the counter.vhd, create a new VHDL module that has the following ports

Name	In/Out	Width (bits)	Description
clk	in	1	System clock
resetn	in	1	System reset (active low)
incr_i	in	32	Internal counter increment per clock cycle
duty_cycle_i	in	32	Internal counter threshold below (above) which pwm_o = 1 (pwm_o = 0)
pwm_o	out	1	Pulse-width modulation output

2. Simulate and validate the new VHDL module (follow the instructions in Behavioral Simulation).

3. Connect the PWM module to the Redpitaya LEDs and verify that you can use it to dim the LED power.

4. Connect the PWM module to the pwm_o ports (requires to uncomment PWM DAC section in redpitaya-125-14.xdc) and verify on an oscilloscope that the you can use PWM in combination with the integrated low-pass filter to generate an analogue output.