This repository contains the projects completed as part of the FPGA Capstone: Building FPGA Projects course, which is part of the FPGA Design for Embedded Systems Specialization offered on Coursera. The course provided hands-on experience in FPGA design using the DE10-Lite development kit and Intel Quartus Prime software. The projects cover key aspects of FPGA hardware and software design, including Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Adders, PWM circuits, ADC circuits, and System-on-Chip (SoC) development using the NIOS II soft processor.
- Project 1: Binary Coded Decimal Adder
- Project 2: Mixed-Signal System with ADC and PWM
- Project 3: System on a Chip with NIOS II
- Project 4: Software for the NIOS II System
- Hardware & Tools Used
- License
In this project, I designed and tested a Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Adder using the DE10-Lite development board and Quartus Prime software. This project involved setting up the MAX10 board using the System Builder tool and recording all the observations in a lab notebook.
In this project, I designed a mixed-signal system that measures voltage using the Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and controls an output using a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) circuit. Quartus Prime's built-in tools were used for simulation and verification.
In this project, I developed the hardware for a System on a Chip (SoC) using the NIOS II soft processor. The system was created using Qsys (Platform Designer) to integrate multiple interfaces on the DE10-Lite board. The design was compiled and instantiated into a top-level HDL file.
In this project, I developed software for the NIOS II soft processor using NIOS II Software Build Tools (SBT) for Eclipse. The software was designed to interface with the hardware created in Project 3, and both the hardware and software were programmed into the FPGA for testing.
- DE10-Lite Development Kit with Intel MAX10 FPGA
- Quartus Prime Design Software
- Qsys (Platform Designer) for SoC creation
- NIOS II Software Build Tools (SBT) for embedded software development
- Eclipse IDE for C programming
