Course preview: SPI master for reading ambient light sensor
This is a preview of some lessons from the SPI master VHDL course.
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This course teaches how to create a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) master (controller) module in VHDL.
We write an SPI master VHDL module from scratch and create a self-checking testbench using Bus Functional Model (BFM), also written in VHDL.
Then we create a top-level VHDL design for reading data from the Digilent Pmod Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) (SKU: 410-286).
Finally, we implement the design on the Lattice iCEstick FPGA board to see it working in the lab. (You can use a different development board as long as it can interface the ALS)
I'm using a Python script to visualize the light intensity data from the ALS in real time over UART. The script and all the code you need are available in the course.
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