Introduction

In this blog, I’m going to show how to set up a VHDL development environment on both Ubuntu and Windows.
I’m going to use only open-source software. Of course, for synthesis and uploading to actual hardware, you’ll need to use the corresponding proprietary tools.
The purpose of this blog is to help beginners, but also to serve as my own reference so that when I’m setting up a new environment, I don’t have to figure out the process all over again.
I’ll update this post with new or better tools and configurations as I find them. You can find the last update date at the bottom of this page.
This is the setup I personally use.

This post is about my GitLab project Binary to 7segment. It’s a generic 7-segment display driver constructed like image below, as its name implies it’s going to take N-bit binary and output 7-segment equivalent numbers by multiplexing each segment automatically.

You must set number of bits in binary input (BINARY_WIDTH) and number of 7-segment display digits (DISPLAY_NUMBER) and whether it is common anode or not (COMMON_ANODE).