MKR Vidor4000 HELP PLEASE!!!!!!

Official Hardware MKR Family MKR Vidor 4000
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Does anyone actually know how to program the FPGA? There is absolutely no documentation that I can find on programming the FPGA part of the board, just that you have to use the Quartus Prime IDE from Intel. I found one site that gave a quick example the link is below, but whenever I attempt the example I get a mountain of errors when I start the compilation process. I've tried multiple times to no avail. Also it says that after compiling the project I have to run a JAVA Program to "invert" the compiled ttf file and change it to a .h library file for arduino. If this is the case how the hell does it work? do you just include the library and call some sort of function from it using arduino? this seems like a god awful, horible way to do something like this. I know I am an absolute noob when it comes to FPGAs but this seems ridiculous, Arduino is know for ease of use and this so far has not been easy to use in any way. I could really use some pointers on how to actually program the Vidor4000 FPGA. Whether complicated or not I'm on a rather limited budget because I'm in school and a single dad of three and I guess I made a poor assumption that getting an Arduino FPGA would make the learning process a slight bit easier. So please anyone that has or knows of any documentation to program this damn thing I more be very appreciative.

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There is a dedicated section for MKR boards; you can click the 'report to moderator' link under your post and ask it to be moved.

I think that you have a better chance in that section.

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Hi, please have a look here: GitHub - vidor-libraries/VidorBitstream

if you follow the readme you will find all the steps required to compile the FPGA and create an arduino library you can load using either IDE or create.
let me know if you have trouble with this.
thanks,

Dario

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Hi,

I don't know if you already tried my tutorial on FPGA programming for the MKR VIDOR 4000.
The method is not the same as the one used by Arduino, but many people have managed to implement it successfully.

Tutorial - English translation

Philippe