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FPGA tutorial by 1-CORE Technologies, an FPGA design services provider.

This tutorial covers questions related to field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), FPGA architecture and FPGA design. It strives to be vendor-neutral.

1. Introduction
   • How to start
   • Creating a simple FPGA project
     • Design entry
     • Simulation
     • Synthesis and Implementation
2. History of the programmable logic
3. FPGA basics
   • FPGA Vendors
   • FPGA Architecture
     • FPGA logic blocks
     • FPGA routing matrix
     • Other FPGA resources
     • FPGA configuration memory
4. FPGA engineering process
   • FPGA design flow overview
   • Architecture design
   • RTL design
     • The basics of digital circuit design
     • Hardware description languages
       • Ports and signals declarations
       • Assignments and processes
       • Structural description
     • Coding for synthesis
       • Inferring block RAMs
   • FPGA synthesis and implementation (Xilinx design flow)
     • Xilinx timing constraints

To be continued...

The FPGA tutorial has been created by 1-CORE Technologies, an FPGA design services provider.