FPGA Remote-Labor Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Info 2024

FPGA Remote-Labor Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Info 2024

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the FPGA remote lab of Hochschule in Germany. I want to give you an update on our remote lab because we have some interesting and exciting news. But before we start with that, just a quick overview. What is an FPGA remote lab? So here you see the structure and FPGA is a is a programmable digital circuit. And in our remote lab you can test out such a circuit on real hardware on our server. So you are sitting at home or at the university with your computer. You design an FPGA and then you can upload the design files, the binaries to the server in our university. Here the binary, the FPGA configuration is programmed on real hardware. It's executed and you get, as a result, the output of the FPGA and a measurement of the current and thereby of the power consumption. That's free. It's a free, uh, open educational resource and we hope you can use it. So speaking of FPGAs, um, that is, um, the news we have because we have a new FPGA available. In the past we had a cyclone four and a cyclone five. And now we also have a cyclone tent available. And in this overview you see the different parameters, the different properties of the FPGAs. And what you can see is that the cyclone ten, the new FPGA we provide is much larger. So you can implement circuits that are much larger than you could do before. Another significant difference between the FPGA is the CMOs technology and core voltage. Cyclone four has 60 nanometer and 1.2V cyclone five for 28 nanometer and 1.1V. And the new FPGA again has the larger technology with 60 nanometer with a low voltage of 1.0V. However, the CMOs technology is a low power process. So first, check out what you can do with the higher capacity of the FPGA. There is a YouTube playlist about pattern recognition with an FPGA and the code is available on GitHub. You could simulate the FPGA, but so far our FPGA is in the remote lab where too small for that large machine learning implementation. And now with the cyclone ten you can implement this design on the FPGA that we have available. Let's see how that works. We have already completed the design and we are just entering here. Our remote lab. Then you can select the select on ten video. Here you upload the binary and start the experiment. You program the FPGA with the play symbols video. You start the video. The FPGA works with 60Hz frame rate, so you have a real time processing of the video signal. The frame grabber has an update rate of about one hertz. We zoom in a bit and we see the operation of the image processing algorithm. The FPGA detects different symbols and indicates the symbols with different colors. More information can be found in the playlist for this experiment. Regarding power consumption. There is a YouTube video that explains an experiment to compare power consumption. I invite you to make this experiment with the site on four and the cycle on ten FPGA, and you will really observe that the cyclone ten will have lower power consumption, especially static power consumption. So on the trailer you will see who is involved in providing you with a remote lab. So have a look at the trailer to see that information. And thanks for watching. Have a good time!

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