What can PandABlocks do?

PandABlocks is a framework enabling a number of functional Block instances to be written and loaded to an FPGA, with their parameters (including their connections to other Blocks) changed at runtime. It allows flexible triggering and processing systems to be created, by users who are unfamiliar with writing FPGA firmware.

How is the documentation structured?

The documentation is structured into a series of Tutorials and some general Reference documentation. End users and developers need different documentation, so links for various categories of user are listed below:

Using an existing PandABlocks device

Work through the Tutorials.

Generating a new set of Blocks for a PandABlocks device

Read Available Blocks to find out what already exists, then read Assembling Blocks into an App to see how to make an App of these Blocks that can be loaded to a PandABlocks device.

Extending the functionality of a PandABlocks device

Read Available Blocks to see if you need to create a new Block or add to an existing one. Read Writing a Block to find out how to specify the interface to a Block, VHDL entity, timing tests and docs.

Working on the core autogeneration framework

Read Writing a Block to find out how the process works, then Autogeneration framework architecture for more details on specific parts of the autogeneration framework

Introduction

Tutorials

Reference