I'm pretty new to hardware programming. I'm currently working on a project and I have to create a communication channel between my PC and FPGA (Xilinx Virtex 5 model) through a USB port.
At the end of the day, it should be able to use a matlab script to send data from PC to FPGA.
For example if I send 110000 from my PC, it should light some LEDs on my FPGA.
I don't know how to establish this communication channel.
ANY HELP ?
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You might want to look into the HDL Verifier product which allows FGPA-in-the-Loop simulation with a variety of popular FPGA boards over Gigabit Ethernet. You can also use this product to co-simulate MATLAB and an HDL simulator such as ModelSim from Mentor Graphics.
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If you really need USB, I would look at the FTDI chipsets for serial port emulation over USB. They are easy to use and readily available.
Disclaimer: I work as a developer for The MathWorks.
Good luck!
-Brian Ogilvie
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Hallo guys,
I'm pretty new to hardware programming. I'm currently working on a project and I have to create a communication channel between my PC and FPGA (Xilinx Virtex 5 model) through a USB port.
At the end of the day, it should be able to use a matlab script to send data from PC to FPGA.
For example if I send 110000 from my PC, it should light some LEDs on my FPGA.
I don't know how to establish this communication channel.
ANY HELP ?
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FWIW, OpenCores lists a USB 1.1 and a USB 2.0 core. But the FTDI chip comes with Windows drivers, which will vastly simplify your life, if your prof will let you do it that way.
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Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
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