The Terasic DECA board as a mandelbrot accelerator. This is a hobby project to explore parallel computation/pipelining on a FPGA.
- working: nine 72 bit fixed point mandelbrot cores run at 60 MHz
- still needs improvement: better resource usage, pipelining, more efficient USB data transfer
- basic interactive Gtk app works
- produces beautiful images:
$ ./initialize-python-environment.sh
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ python3 gateware/deca_mandelbrot.py --keep
$ cd gateware/
$ ./run-tests.sh
If you want to generate .vcd traces please set the GENERATE_VCDS
variable in the file to 1