Mandelbrot set on Spartan3

[Thorsten Kiefer]

Hi,
implemented the Mandelbrot set on Digilent's Starter Kit for Spartan 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohaJJLdfZQ

Is anyone interested in the .bit-file ?

Regards
Thorsten

 

[Visar Zejnullahu]

On 04/03/2012 05:09 PM, Thorsten Kiefer wrote:

Hi,
implemented the Mandelbrot set on Digilent's Starter Kit for Spartan 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohaJJLdfZQ

Is anyone interested in the .bit-file ?

Regards
Thorsten

I am

 

[backhus]

On 3 Apr., 17:09, Thorsten Kiefer <thorstenkie...@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi,
implemented the Mandelbrot set on Digilent's Starter Kit for Spartan 3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohaJJLdfZQ

Is anyone interested in the .bit-file ?

Regards
Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,
who cares about the bitfile (unless one has the same board you got)?
With the bitfile alone it is not much different from running any such
program on your pc.
You see nice pictures.

On your youtube page you wrote that you implemented this with floating
point precision.
The more interesting thing is the source code, so people can learn
from it, adapt it to other boards and/or expand it.
Maybe you like to share it via a webpage of your own or project
hosters like sourceforge, github or even opencores.org.
Even the Xilinx forums could be a good place for this, since you can
add zip-files to the postings there.

In any case, it's an impressive and enjoyable piece of work
demonstrating your skills and the capabilities of such a development
board.
I wonder how much faster it will work on a Spartan 6 Board like e.g.
the NEXYS3?

Have a nice synthesis
Eilert

 

[Thorsten Kiefer]

Am 05.04.2012 09:00, schrieb backhus:

On 3 Apr., 17:09, Thorsten Kiefer<thorstenkie...@gmx.de> wrote:
Hi,
implemented the Mandelbrot set on Digilent's Starter Kit for Spartan 3.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohaJJLdfZQ

Is anyone interested in the .bit-file ?

Regards
Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,
who cares about the bitfile (unless one has the same board you got)?
With the bitfile alone it is not much different from running any such
program on your pc.
You see nice pictures.

On your youtube page you wrote that you implemented this with floating
point precision.
The more interesting thing is the source code, so people can learn
from it, adapt it to other boards and/or expand it.
Maybe you like to share it via a webpage of your own or project
hosters like sourceforge, github or even opencores.org.
Even the Xilinx forums could be a good place for this, since you can
add zip-files to the postings there.

In any case, it's an impressive and enjoyable piece of work
demonstrating your skills and the capabilities of such a development
board.
I wonder how much faster it will work on a Spartan 6 Board like e.g.
the NEXYS3?

Have a nice synthesis
Eilert

Hi Eilert,
I cannot post the source, because I took most of the modules from a book.
But I can post the main file, because this is my own work, and here
the color calculation takes place. Do you think, people would be
satisfied with the main.vhd file ?
The main file shows how to use the modules from the book and how
to use Xilinx' FP-IP-Cores.

I'm not sure if I can publish only parts of a project on the hosters
you mentioned.

Regards
Thorsten

 

[Frank Buss]

Thorsten Kiefer wrote:

I cannot post the source, because I took most of the modules from a book.
But I can post the main file, because this is my own work, and here
the color calculation takes place. Do you think, people would be
satisfied with the main.vhd file ?
The main file shows how to use the modules from the book and how
to use Xilinx' FP-IP-Cores.

You can ask the author of the book. Usually they post the source code
anyway on their webpages and allows to use and publish it for your own
projects, depending on the licence.

I'm not sure if I can publish only parts of a project on the hosters
you mentioned.

Use http://pastebin.com , or even better, write a webpage (or blog) and
explain how you did it. I would be interested in how easy it is to use
floating point numbers on a FPGA.

--
Frank Buss, http://www.frank-buss.de
electronics and more: http://www.youtube.com/user/frankbuss

 

[Thorsten Kiefer]

Am 06.04.2012 08:17, schrieb Frank Buss:

Thorsten Kiefer wrote:

I cannot post the source, because I took most of the modules from a book.
But I can post the main file, because this is my own work, and here
the color calculation takes place. Do you think, people would be
satisfied with the main.vhd file ?
The main file shows how to use the modules from the book and how
to use Xilinx' FP-IP-Cores.

You can ask the author of the book. Usually they post the source code
anyway on their webpages and allows to use and publish it for your own
projects, depending on the licence.

I'm not sure if I can publish only parts of a project on the hosters
you mentioned.

Use http://pastebin.com , or even better, write a webpage (or blog) and
explain how you did it. I would be interested in how easy it is to use
floating point numbers on a FPGA.

I'm a bit too lazy to explain it.
The code is not too complicated, and accessing the floating point cores
is very easy.

http://pastebin.com/x3NHdtqE