{"id":21533,"date":"2018-07-26T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=21533"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:13:02","slug":"arty-and-arduino-building-an-open-source-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/arty-and-arduino-building-an-open-source-mcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Arty and Arduino- Building an Open Source MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RS Online published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs-online.com\/designspark\/build-an-open-source-mcu-and-program-it-with-arduino\">an article<\/a> detailing how one user took his <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists\/\">Arty<\/a> and set it up so he could program it with the Arduino IDE. The full project is specified below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this post we take a look at how the eminently affordable Xilinx Artix-7 based Digilent Arty Board \u2014 which was designed with makers and hobbyists in mind \u2014 can be configured with an open source RISC-V microcontroller that can optionally be built from RTL sources, and which can then be programmed via the Arduino IDE or alternatively a makefile driven GNU toolchain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21553\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blink-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-wp-pid=\"21553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blink-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blink.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The author of this project is Andrew Back, Open source advocate and founder of Open Source Hardware User&#8217;s group. \u00a0For hardware, he uses just the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists\/\">Arty <\/a>and an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olimex.com\/Products\/ARM\/JTAG\/ARM-USB-TINY-H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARM-USB-TINY-H<\/a>\u00a0USB JTAG adapter to provide a debug\/programming connection to the RISC-V core. He then details step-by-step his process for making this customizable microcontroller platform.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21554\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ARV_Arduino_IDE-600x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"577\" data-wp-pid=\"21554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ARV_Arduino_IDE-600x577.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ARV_Arduino_IDE.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This project opens up a whole world of possibilities involving the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists\/\">Arty.<\/a>\u00a0So if you are interested, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs-online.com\/\">RS Online <\/a>to see<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rs-online.com\/designspark\/build-an-open-source-mcu-and-program-it-with-arduino\">\u00a0the full article <\/a>on how to get started yourself! And make sure to let us know in the comments below, or on social media, what you plan to make with this awesome setup!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-21533 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='21533' data-nonce='05046dc8ab' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-21533 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-21533 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='21533' data-nonce='05046dc8ab' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-21533 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-21533 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out an incredible project featuring the Arty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":21553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1563],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4485],"class_list":["post-21533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpga","category-guide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Blink.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4485,"user_id":36,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mirandamay7","display_name":"Miranda Hansen","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcab037c32924b9f9b3ca4898e179f2764cb7d9a82aa2bd475170c8aaa884e1c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}