# deca-mandelbrot

**Repository Path**: ic-starter/deca-mandelbrot

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: deca-mandelbrot
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-18
- **Last Updated**: 2022-01-15

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# deca-mandelbrot
The Terasic DECA board as a mandelbrot accelerator.
This is a hobby project to explore parallel computation/pipelining
on a FPGA.

## current status
* 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:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/148607/137055848-e216424f-0ad3-4c40-96b1-d512d16e04b4.png)

## how to build
```bash
$ ./initialize-python-environment.sh
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ python3 gateware/deca_mandelbrot.py --keep
```

## how to run the testbench
```bash
$ cd gateware/
$ ./run-tests.sh
```
If you want to generate .vcd traces please set the `GENERATE_VCDS` variable in the file to `1`