Spartan 3 decoder tutorial

Spartan 3 Decoder Tutorial EE574 Spartan 3 Starter Board Tutorial (Simple decoder Design synthesized and loaded to board) Jim Duckworth, January 2005, WPI. (updated September 2006 by Kahraman Akdemir for version 8.1ISE) Start Xilinx Project Navigator: Select File => New Project Select a project location and project name, for example: Click Next. Copyright © 2004 R James Duckworth 1 Rev B Spartan 3 Decoder Tutorial EE574 Select the device family, device, and package as shown below (this corresponds to the Spartan 3 device on the starter board: Click Next: Click New Source and enter decoder for the file name and select the VHDL module for the type of source: Copyright © 2004 R James Duckworth 2 Rev B Spartan 3 Decoder Tutorial EE574 Click Next. You can now specify the inputs and outputs for the decoder. We have one 3-bit input (sel) and one 8-bit output (y) as shown: Click Next A summary window opens: Copyright © 2004 R James Duckworth 3 Rev B Spartan 3 Decoder Tutorial EE574 Click Finish Click Next We do not need to add any existing sources so click Next A final summary window is shown: Copyright © 2004 R James Duckworth 4 Rev B Spartan 3 Decoder Tutorial EE574 Click Finish Project Navigator now shows your project including a top level VHDL file for the decoder. You can close the Design Summary window shown below, and you will have the decoder.vhd file instead. ...