Taking Advantage of Embedded FPGA (eFPGA)
Whether you are designing an SoC, MCU or other chip, the one common heartache is “freezing RTL.” Up until that point, it’s no problem making a change or update, but once it’s frozen, the chip design is “locked in.” A change after that point could require a new spin that is not only costly, but can also significantly delay the chip development schedule. Now imagine what it would be like to have no deadline t ...
Read more ›NEW PART DAY: LED DRIVER IS FPGA DEV BOARD IN DISGUISE
Our new part of the day is the ColorLight 5A-75B, a board that’s meant to drive eight of those ubiquitous high-density color LED panels over gigabit Ethernet. If you were building a commercial LED wall, you’d screw a bunch of the LED panels together, daisy-chain a bunch of these boards to drive them, supply power, and you’d be done. Because of that high-volume application, these boards are inexpensive, arou ...
Read more ›MaxProLogic: Ultra Low Cost FPGA Development Board
SWEETENING THE DEAL With a few days left in our campaign, we will sweeten the MaxProLogic deal. We will now offer our newly developed BLE Board. This board includes the Texas Instruments CC2640 chip along with a 2.4GHz antenna and matching network. This board plugs directly into MaxProLogic. It communicates with the FPGA over a UART serial link. The CC2640 runs proprietary firmware along with the radio cont ...
Read more ›FPGA eink controller
Description I started this project two years ago but lost interest last year after being stuck with the custom board. I since got it working, and will share my findings. The idea is to control an old broken kindle 3 eink display with a FPGA. I started looking at http://essentialscrap.com/eink/waveforms.html and http://spritesmods.com/?art=einkdisplay since eink constructor is so secretive that you can't fin ...
Read more ›A FPGA controlled RGB LED MATRIX for Incredible Effects
In this post you will find the description of a graphic display that uses a modular solution based on dot matrix blocks (in which each dot is a RGB LED), that are driven – via a specific bus – by a very powerful control board, that is entirely programmable and capable of managing even very fast animations, thanks to the FPGA it is supplied with. Yes, the key factor is the Spartan-6 Field Programmable Gate ...
Read more ›QUICK FACE RECOGNITION WITH AN FPGA
It’s the 21st century, and according to a lot of sci-fi movies we should have perfected AI by now, right? Well we are getting there, and this project from a group of Cornell University students titled, “FPGA kNN Recognition” is a graceful attempt at facial recognition. For the uninitiated, the K-nearest neighbors or kNN Algorithm is a very simple classification algorithm that uses similarities between given ...
Read more ›Space Invaders FPGA Game
This two person project was completed through the course of Embedded Systems at the University of Thessaly, Department of Computer Engineering. In the context of this game we implemented the classic space invaders game using a zedboard fpga. The code is in Verilog and you can find it on github . The project consists of 3 parts. First the connection with the monitor through the vga interface, the game logic ...
Read more ›HANDS ON WITH THE ARDUINO FPGA
All of the tools you need to work with the FPGA Arduino — the Vidor — are now in the wild! . We reported earlier that a series of French blog posts finally showed how all the pieces fit together to program the FPGA on the Arduino MKR4000 Vidor board. Of course, I wasn’t content to just read the Google translation, I had to break out the board and try myself. I created a very simple starter template, a tool ...
Read more ›Consolite – a Tiny Game Console on an FPGA
For my latest project, I am diving back into Verilog to create the hardware side of Consolite. For those who don't know, Consolite is the name I've given to my design of a tiny hobbyist game console and associated software toolchain. In my previous posts, I demoed a compiler that translates from a flavor of C to Consolite Assembly, an assembler that translates from Consolite Assembly to binary files, and an ...
Read more ›DIY FPGA Programming
I’ve been thinking about building stuff with FPGA’s for a while, and usually get turned away because FPGA’s are considerably harder to implement than microcontrollers since they have no on-chip memory. It is necessary to re-program the gates every time they power up, which requires an external flash memory chip. There aren’t great references online for the DIY community, so I figured I’d post how to get thi ...
Read more ›Nandland Go Board – Your FPGA Playground
Nandland Go Board - Your FPGA Playground My name is Russell and I am the creator of www.nandland.com. I started Nandland to increase the usage of FPGAs by making them easy to use. I am thrilled to announce after months of hard work the creation of the next phase of that plan: The first FPGA development board you should buy! What is an FPGA? FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. An FPGA is a compo ...
Read more ›Mango: A Compact Size FPGA Research Platform
About LASARRUS LLC., is family run business that is focused on providing a state-of-the-art clinic for rehabilitating patients suffering from post-stroke trauma or joint injuries of the upper extremities, while performing research and development on new and innovative robotic devices for robotic-assisted therapy. About this Project: We at LASARRUS Clinic and Research Center are looking to utilize new techno ...
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