Data Transfer from PC to FPGA through USB

You might take a look at FTDI interface chips. They have a variety of solutions as does Cypress Semi.

You don't mention how much performance you need. Is it MB/sec or KB/sec? That makes a huge difference to your approach. Also - USB2 or USB3?

John P

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.

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.

Then make your life easy: use an usb -> parallel port adapter (like

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Hallo Guys,

thanks alot for your contributions. I have done abit of research and i have the following information available:

I will be using a Virtex-5 lx50 Evaluation board, with USB controller from Cypress.

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Herbert,

The simplicity of this solution is brilliant!

Yours sincerely, Rene

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My understanding is that the old parallel printer port is a 5V signalling standard and apply this to a modern FPGA will result in damage.

Ed McGettigan

-- Xilinx Inc.