We reported earlier that a series of French blog posts finally showed how all the pieces fit together to program the FPGA on the Arduino MKR4000 Vidor board. Of course, I wasn’t content to just read the Google translation, I had to break out the board and try myself.
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I just used an arduino in a class i’m taking– Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering! Circuits and breadboards are so fun to work with, and so gratifying to complete (i’ve had my fair share of late nights huddled over a board with a multimeter, trying to figure out where my wiring could have gone wrong.) I used the Arduino Nano ESP32.
This was definitely a complex article to read. I could recognize some components and understand bits and pieces, but I had to do some googling as well. A Field-Programmable Gate Array is something that can be programmed to do custom digital logic functions. (Basically, you can make it add, subtract, multiply, divide, or any combination of those to make complex equations.)
This author coded some of the programming to the device to configure the FPGA through the Arduino program (which is a separate coding program.) He made a program which was able to change the LED’s blinking speed based upon a value D5.
I definitely agree with a comment left on the original article by dahud “I honestly can’t imagine why I’d bother.”
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