Welcome to the bases to board overview.
If you're using the bases to board for this course I'm going to go ahead just give you an overview of
what to expect when you get your board.
How to test it.
And just a few things on the board.
So your basic keyboard should come in a box.
It looks something like this.
If you buy it from the vigilent Web site the length is provided and if you open it up you'll see the
picture we just have a picture of the bases to board.
When you open it up you should see the bases board itself and us be table.
And this is what we use to power the board as well as program the bases to board.
So let's go ahead and take the base just to board out of our box and take the USP cable in order to
test that.
What we want to do is you'll notice that we have a little jumper up here and the top top of your top
right corner.
And there's two different sections you can go between.
It will be either there's a PC in Iran in order to test this.
You want to make sure that the jumper is selecting the ROM and the middle pin and what that will do
is that's going to say that the configuration file loaded on flash memory on the board.
So when you powered it up it'll come off from the ROM.
And ladies should light up your 7st display should be flashing just let you know that your board is
working.
So let's go ahead and power this guy up.
He is going to plug here us be table in and then plug it into us B which you can just plug it in your
computer or if you have a wall wart or something.
It's just a standard US be 5 volt power.
Go ahead and plug it in.
And now we go ahead hit our switch.
Turn that on and you'll see our board is powered up.
So we've got our lady here telling us that the board is powered up and working correctly.
We've got our seven segment display which is displaying counting and hacks from 0 up to half.
And we've got push buttons and switches we can hit we going see that the LCD is turning on.
So that's good that's telling us that all our ladies work the boards working and everything's OK.
Which This should factor this already tests.
But just a quick way for you to make sure that your board is working and so on the board we have this
small little chip kind of directly in the center.
And if you look really close at it on yours you'll see has a Xilinx symbol and it'll say Spartan and
that is because it's a Xilinx chip and it's a Spartan series FPGA and we've got a few other peripherals
we have.
As you can see here the USP port which is used to program empower our board.
We've got all the switches which we'll be using in the labs throughout the course.
We've got these push buttons which we'll use as well you can see when I hit them it unlikes the selected
segment on the 7 segment splay and then we've also have several these different clumpy mods through
digital and Web site and essentially what they are they give you access.
You can take wires plug wires into the air and stick them in a breadboard which we do in our RC servo
lab and it just gives you access from the outside taxi access pins on that FPGA and they do sell little
pea mods connectors you can stick in there and do other cool things with.
So this is kind of an overview of what the bases to board looks like will be what we'll be doing and
we're going to be working with the Ltd's seven Sigma display the pushbuttons and we will work with the
Pimas RC servo.
So that is kind of what you can expect and I hope you're ready to learn.