Reply by February 3, 20092009-02-03
On Jan 25, 11:07=A0pm, backhus <n...@nirgends.xyz> wrote:
> Hi, > for such an application as controlling a display, a programmable > solution like using a picoblaze is much more flexible than designing a > dedicated FSM. > There is an application note (at least for the Spartan 3E Starter Kit) > that should work for you. Give it a try first. > > When it works continue like this: > > Expand the design with four Input ports to read in your counter value > > Write an assembler routine that converts your binary value to the code > representation needed by the display ( maybe ASCII). > > Change the existing code to read in the ports and call your converting > routine at a certain time. (Maybe your counter has a Ripple Output or > EndCount Signal that you can feed to the Interrupt input of the picoblaze=
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> > Have a nice synthesis > =A0 =A0Eilert > > uraniumore...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > > > Hi All, > > > I am trying to understand how to use the picoblaze soft-core. I have a > > verilog program that uses a counter and stops at a predicted value > > ( positive or negative). The value of this counter I would like to > > display on the LCD display of my SPARTAN 3AN. Is there a more simple > > way to do this than the picoblaze route ? If picoblaze is the best way > > to go, can someone please explain to me, step-by-step, how I would > > change the picpblaze code to display the value of the register. Please > > note that the 32'bit register value can be either presented as a > > negative value or positive decimal value. > > > Thanks!- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Okay, the design works. Expand which design ? Do you mean my .psm or the the verilog file that instantiates the picoblaze?
Reply by backhus January 26, 20092009-01-26
Hi,
for such an application as controlling a display, a programmable 
solution like using a picoblaze is much more flexible than designing a 
dedicated FSM.
There is an application note (at least for the Spartan 3E Starter Kit) 
that should work for you. Give it a try first.

When it works continue like this:

Expand the design with four Input ports to read in your counter value

Write an assembler routine that converts your binary value to the code 
representation needed by the display ( maybe ASCII).

Change the existing code to read in the ports and call your converting 
routine at a certain time. (Maybe your counter has a Ripple Output or 
EndCount Signal that you can feed to the Interrupt input of the picoblaze.)

Have a nice synthesis
   Eilert

uraniumore238@gmail.com schrieb:
> Hi All, > > I am trying to understand how to use the picoblaze soft-core. I have a > verilog program that uses a counter and stops at a predicted value > ( positive or negative). The value of this counter I would like to > display on the LCD display of my SPARTAN 3AN. Is there a more simple > way to do this than the picoblaze route ? If picoblaze is the best way > to go, can someone please explain to me, step-by-step, how I would > change the picpblaze code to display the value of the register. Please > note that the 32'bit register value can be either presented as a > negative value or positive decimal value. > > Thanks!
Reply by January 25, 20092009-01-25
Hi All,

I am trying to understand how to use the picoblaze soft-core. I have a
verilog program that uses a counter and stops at a predicted value
( positive or negative). The value of this counter I would like to
display on the LCD display of my SPARTAN 3AN. Is there a more simple
way to do this than the picoblaze route ? If picoblaze is the best way
to go, can someone please explain to me, step-by-step, how I would
change the picpblaze code to display the value of the register. Please
note that the 32'bit register value can be either presented as a
negative value or positive decimal value.

Thanks!