Hello,
I am in some way a newbie in getting things to run on an FGPA, so I would be helpful if someone could help me a little bit out how to get started.
I have implemented a simple processor architecture in VHDL and I successfully simulated it with Modelsim. Now my next goal would be to get this processor running on a Xilinx Virtex-II PMC FPGA board.
For synthesis I am going to use Xilinx ISE 7.1i. So to see if the processor on the FPGA is doing what it should do I could use Chipscope and the Jtag interface. However, I am a little bit lost with the following tasks.
1) I had some kind for simple RAM for simulation. How can I implement this RAM correctly so that it be sythesizable and will correctly run on the FPGA?2) When I start the processor, I should have my instructions loaded into the Instruction RAM? How can I do this, really no clue :(
I am sorry for these basis questions, but I would be thankful if someone could give me a hint where and how to start!
Many thanks!! Andi