Part I: Getting Started with FPGA
1. What is an FPGA and What Can It Do?
2. Our Weapon of Choice
3. Lock and Load
4. Hello World!
Part II: Time out for Theory
5. FPGA Development Timeline
6. VHDL 101
7. Number Theory for FPGAs
8. Telling the Truth: Boolean Algebra and Truth Tables
9. Simplifying Boolean Algebra for FPGA
10. Sequential Logic: IF this, THEN that
11. Combinatorial Logic: Putting it all together on the FPGA
Part III: Let's Make Something!
12. Light Sensors: Turning a Laser Pointer into a Hi-tech Tripwire
13. Temperature Sensors: Is it Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?
14. How Fast Can You Run? Ask the Accelerometer!
Part IV: Taking It Further: Talking to the Raspberry Pi and LED Displays
15. I2C: Two-way Communications with Your Raspberry Pi
16. Up in Lights: How to Drive LED Segment Displays
About the Author: Aiken Pang was born in Hong Kong in the early 80s just in time for the home micro-computer revolution. He developed an interest in computers after finding an Apple IIe at his uncle's home, installing a TV card, floppy drive and loaded his first game (Pacman) by himself at the age of 10. Since then he has taught himself a number of programming languages and built his own computers from scratch.
Aiken followed his passion for computing into more formal studies and holds a BEng in Electronics Engineering and an MSc in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell respectively. He has been using VHDL to design hardware in FPGAs for over 10 years. He lives in the USA with his wife France and their daughter Mayah.