DESD/README.md

Digital Electronic System Design

Politecnico di Milano (2024-2025)

📖 Overview

Welcome to the Digital Electronic System Design Laboratory repository!
This repository contains VHDL projects and exercises from the course Digital Electronic System Design at Politecnico di Milano (Course Code: 054083).

The course focuses on:

• FPGA-based digital design
• VHDL simulation, synthesis, and implementation

🛠️ Tools & Hardware

• Software:
  • Xilinx Vivado 2020.2 (WebPack Edition)
• Hardware:
  • Digilent Basys 3
    • FPGA: Xilinx Artix-7 (XC7A35T-1CPG236C)

🎯 Course Goals

• Develop practical skills for FPGA-based digital system design
• Implement and test VHDL architectures using Vivado and Basys 3
• Learn about FPGA timing, power, I/O, and memory management

📂 Repository Structure

• LABx/
  • src/: VHDL source files
  • sim/: Simulation files
  • cons/: Constraint files
  • vivado/: Vivado project files

🚀 Getting Started

Clone the Repository

To get started with this project, follow these steps:

1. Open a terminal (e.g., Command Prompt or PowerShell) on your Windows machine.

2. Navigate to the C:\ directory:

   cd C:\
   

3. Clone the repository using Git:

   git clone https://git.cdtech.duckdns.org/Davide/DESD.git
   

   This will create a folder named DESD in C:\.

4. Open the folder C:\DESD in Visual Studio Code.

Install VHDL Extension

To work with VHDL files in Visual Studio Code, install the VHDL LS extension:

1. Open Visual Studio Code.
2. Go to the Extensions view by clicking on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window or pressing Ctrl+Shift+X.
3. Search for VHDL LS in the Extensions Marketplace.
4. Click Install on the extension by Håkon Bohlin.
5. Restart Visual Studio Code to activate the extension.

📬 Contact

For any questions or issues open an issue in this repository.