The canonical “Hello, world!” of hardware is to blink a LED. The directory :repo:`hdl/verilog/blink <hdl/verilog/blink>` contains a Verilog example of a blink project. This takes the 48 MHz clock and divides it down by a large number so you get an on/off pattern.
Enter the :repo:`hdl/verilog/blink <hdl/verilog/blink>` directory and build the demo by using make
:
Make sure you set the FOMU_REV
value to match your hardware! See :ref:`required-hardware`.
.. session:: shell-session $ make FOMU_REV=$FOMU_REV ... Info: Max frequency for clock 'clk': 73.26 MHz (PASS at 12.00 MHz) Info: Max delay posedge clk -> <async>: 3.15 ns Info: Slack histogram: Info: legend: * represents 1 endpoint(s) Info: + represents [1,1) endpoint(s) Info: [ 69683, 70208) |** Info: [ 70208, 70733) | Info: [ 70733, 71258) |** Info: [ 71258, 71783) |** Info: [ 71783, 72308) |** Info: [ 72308, 72833) |** Info: [ 72833, 73358) | Info: [ 73358, 73883) |** Info: [ 73883, 74408) |* Info: [ 74408, 74933) |** Info: [ 74933, 75458) |** Info: [ 75458, 75983) |* Info: [ 75983, 76508) |* Info: [ 76508, 77033) |** Info: [ 77033, 77558) |** Info: [ 77558, 78083) |* Info: [ 78083, 78608) | Info: [ 78608, 79133) |************************* Info: [ 79133, 79658) |** Info: [ 79658, 80183) |*** 22 warnings, 0 errors icepack blink.asc blink.bit cp blink.bit blink.dfu dfu-suffix -v 1209 -p 70b1 -a blink.dfu dfu-suffix (dfu-util) 0.9 Copyright 2011-2012 Stefan Schmidt, 2013-2014 Tormod Volden This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Please report bugs to http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/ Suffix successfully added to file $
You can then load blink.dfu
onto Fomu by using the same dfu-util -D
command we’ve been using so far.
You should see a blinking pattern of varying color on your Fomu, indicating your bitstream was successfully loaded.
There is another small example in :repo:`hdl/verilog/blink-expanded <hdl/verilog/blink-expanded>` which shows how to read out some given pins. Build and flash it like described above and see if you can enable the blue and red LED by shorting pins 1+2 or 3+4 on your Fomu (the pins are the exposed contacts sticking out of the USB port).