Hey folks!  Newbie hobbyist here with my brand new Au and Justin's  Learning FPGA book.  Everyone else here seems to have a lot more experience then I.  If you feel the same way too then drop a line.  Us newbies gotta stick together and help each other out!  For instance, when I try to down load the LEDtoButton build to my board the Lab app crashes.  I'm on Win10.  I can confirm I have the USB driver required by the Lab page https://alchitry.com/pages/alchitry-labs but the board shows no change in activity when I start the download, the Lab app just closes.  Let me know if you have the same issue or, even better, you solved this problem!  Otherwise, drop a line and say hi; let's start networking so we can help each other out getting the beginner tutorials under our belts.

I am trying to figure out how interface the AU to some optical encoders, can i just hook them together. Trying to read RPM from a motor.

The encoders are 3.3v and they have 3 connectors, pwr, gnd and signal.

I have been using AVR and Rpi's so this didn't seem like a big deal, I am unsure about how to go about this with the AU.

Thanks for any guidance on this,
JT

Hi, Sparkfun offer new version board with Qwiic Connect System. What signals (pins) Qwiic uses, please? There is no Schematic of new one. Thanks a lot.

Hi all,
I would like to created a project on Au in Vivado uses DDR3 and another built in component (flash) and looking for clean Vivado project or constrains xdc file included DDR3 and flash signals. There are only LEDs, USB and button in Au-Base-Project on the git repository.
Thanks a lot for help.
Jan

I have a 16 bits of parallel data that I would like to serialize and send out of the Alchitry Au as a continuous high speed data stream to create a pulsed digital waveform. 

I have seen there is a Serializer 1-8 to 1 bit called Serdes N to 1 in the Alchitry Labs 1.1.6 Video Components, however is there a design example for SERDES in Verilog 
or Lucid specifically for the Alchitry Au? 

Is there a free IP Core in or software library in Vivado that can be used? Is it called OSERDES2 ?

I've started reading the 7 Series FPGAs SelectIO Resources User Guide UG741 v1.10 May 2018, and the LogiCore IP SelectIO Interface Wizard v5.1,
however there is so much information, that it's not obvious where to get started, so I'm asking if there's anybody on this forum that has any experience that can help me with getting started? 

I want to use the avr interface to sample analog inputs with nothing connected to the usb data. how is this done?

I have been unsuccessful in uploading any Arduino sketches to my MojoV3. I can see my Mojo device under device manager as Mojo V3 (COM5). I setup up Tools -> Board "Mojo v3",  Port COM5. Compilation succeeds. When uploading the port gets reset, the board is still powered, I can see the COM5 port going away and not coming back in DeviceManager. Clicking the boards reset does reset the board (8LEDS go to off) but the COM5 port does not show, unplugging and plugging the board shows COM5 again. I tried clicking the reset button as per the error message below. I am using Arduino IDE 1.6.5 with the Mojo plugins. Help, guidance will be most appreciated. 

From the Arduino IDE is see:

Sketch uses 8,470 bytes (29%) of program storage space. Maximum is 28,672 bytes.
Global variables use 1,349 bytes of dynamic memory.
Forcing reset using 1200bps open/close on port COM5
PORTS {COM3, COM4, COM5, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
PORTS {COM3, COM4, } / {COM3, COM4, } => {}
processing.app.debug.RunnerException: Couldn't find a Board on the selected port. Check that you have the correct port selected.  If it is correct, try pressing the board's reset button after initiating the upload.
at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.waitForUploadPort(SerialUploader.java:246)
at cc.arduino.packages.uploaders.SerialUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(SerialUploader.java:129)
at processing.app.debug.Compiler.upload(Compiler.java:166)
at processing.app.Sketch.upload(Sketch.java:1167)
at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Sketch.java:1141)
at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Sketch.java:1113)
at processing.app.Editor$DefaultExportHandler.run(Editor.java:2380)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Couldn't find a Board on the selected port. Check that you have the correct port selected.  If it is correct, try pressing the board's reset button after initiating the upload.

In my project, I am using an Alchitry Au to read some data from a sensor and trying to make real-time serial communication with a host PC (sending commands from the host machine and receiving data from the FPGA board using python pyserial). This project works fine in the windows host machine. 
My problem starts when I try to introduce a Linux host PC. To work with the Alchitry loader, I need to move the 99-alchitry.rules file from the driver folder into /etc/udev/rules.d/; however, copying this rule file unbind the Alchitry Au from the /dev/tty* port and the host PC can not communicate with the FPGA  using the python any more. Could anyone please suggest some solution to cope up with the issue?

when i run the tutorial code to send multiple pots to pwm  i only get 4 displayed at any one time. then when i push the rst button it swaps tothe other 4. can someone point out whats making this happen and maybe help me get all 8 dispayed at the same time...

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