amaranth-farm / fpga-mandelbrot

FPGA mandelbrot accelerator via high speed/super speed USB

FPGA Mandelbrot

FPGA boards as mandelbrot accelerators. This is a hobby project to explore parallel computation/pipelining on a FPGA.

Supported Boards

• The Terasic DECA board over high speed USB2

Current Status

• Terasic DECA board working: nine 72 bit fixed point mandelbrot cores run at 60 MHz over high speed USB2
• basic interactive Gtk app written in python works
• imgui based app written in Nim works
• produces beautiful images:

How to build

$ ./initialize-python-environment.sh
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ python3 gateware/deca_mandelbrot.py --keep

How to run the testbench

$ cd gateware/
$ ./run-tests.sh

If you want to generate .vcd traces please set the GENERATE_VCDS variable in the file to 1