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Tutorials on Basic Tools/Techniques

• Networking in a Linux VM
• Tcl for Vivado
• Python Virtual Environments
• SSH Keys
• SystemVerilog Testbenches - An Alternative to Tcl
• Races in Testbenches
• Tutorial on 'make'
• Vivado 2017.2 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Tutorial on 'Travis CI'
• Tutorial on Docker
• Screenshots of Python Tutorials
• Conda Tutorial

Lab/Computer Setup

• What Operating System should I use?
• How do I connect to my machine in the lab remotely?
• Installing Vivado/Vitis
• Program 7 Series FPGA from a Mac or Linux Without Xilinx

Running Software on the ARM Processor

Bare Metal

• https://github.com/byu-cpe/BYU-Computing-Tutorials/blob/master/vivado-sdk-hls/vivado_tutorial.pdf This tutorial describes setting up a basic ARM processor project in Vivado, and then importing it into the Xilinx SDK in order to run a "Hello World" application. The tutorial also describes adding an HLS IP to your Vivado project, and interacting with it from the SDK software.

Running Linux

• Setting up and connecting to a PYNQ-based board

Rapidwright

• Compiling and Running Rapidwright in VSCode

Linux on FPGAs

Creating custom Linux drivers

• See resources here: http://linux427.groups.et.byu.net/wiki/doku.php?id=start. Specifically:
  • Lab 4 about creating your first device driver
  • Linux Device Drivers
  • Linux Platform Devices and the Device Tree

Creating custom Linux Images

• Creating a custom Linux image for the Ultra96 board
• Creating a custom Linux image for the UltraZed board