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On “[Request] FPGA content for dummies - DE-10 Nano”
I bought the DE10-Nano couple of months ago and started from a software background as well. I'll try and share all the resources I found were useful to me as an absolute beginner.
## SoCs are different from standard FPGAs
On a standard FPGA board (iCEstick, nandland go), all the peripherals are connected to various pins on the FPGA. However, on the DE10-Nano, some of the peripherals are connected to the FPGA fabric and some are connected to the HPS. For example, HDMI is connected to the FPGA fabric. So you can't get video out just by using Linux on an sd card. It needs to be accompanied with some files that will allow the HPS to communicate with the FPGA to show the HDMI output. This is sh…