Jack Gassett
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Webpack VHDL Quickstart for the Papilio Platform
Webpack VHDL Quickstart for the Papilio Platform Welcome to the Webpack VHDL Quickstart Guide for the Papilio Platform. This guide shows how to get a simple VHDL design up and running on the Papilio Hardware. It will cover using Xilinx Webpack to create a project, import a constraint file, synthesize a design, and load the…
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Papilio Platform Quickstart Guide
Papilio Quick Start Guide Overview Welcome to the Papilio Quickstart Guide and the exciting world of FPGA development made easy. This guide covers the basics of installing the software and drivers needed to load the various projects that you create for or download to the Papilio Platform hardware. It also covers loading a basic, “Hello…
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Butterfly Loader 1.3 Released
A new Butterfly Loader with the following features has been released: Supports the AT45DB081D Flash chip Can now program SPI Flash with both the 250K and 500K Papilio boards. Download from the Butterfly Loader project page
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New Gadget Factory website.
Gadget Factory is proud to announce a new website! We have been working overtime to make learning about the Papilio Platform as easy as using the Papilio Platform is. This new streamlined website is the first step towards better presentation and documentation. We have even made the the new forums easier to use by standardizing…
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16-bit Buffer Wing availible in store.
Butterfly Platform 16-bit Buffer Wing (BPW5015) This Wing provides a 16-bit, 5V tolerant input-only buffer for the Butterfly Platform Cocoons, and can be used with the OLS Logic Analyzer. Specifications 16 input-only channels Populated with the ON Semi MC74LCX16245DTG Transceiver. All inputs are 5V tolerant, can take up to 7V signals for short durations. Propagation…
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Calling all VHDL hackers, we can use help on the OLS project.
In order to try to foster a fun environment where people can come and help us hack away at the Sump Logic Analyzer code we have recorded a screencast for one of the outstanding tracker items we have. We are trying to create a single bitstream that can dynamically change its memory configuration based on…
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Video Overview of Sump Logic Analyzer VHDL Code.
This is a four part video overview of the Sump Logic Analyzer VHDL Code that is used with the OpenBench Logic Sniffer project. The OLS is a joint project between Dangerous Prototypes and Gadget Factory, it can be purchased for $50. This series of videos is meant to help people who want to start developing…
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Major updates to the Logic Analyzer, Butterfly Loader, and Wiring/Arduino IDE projects.
We released some major updates to our most important software projects. The updates take advantage of the new Butterfly_Prog application contributed by Jochem Govers. This application means that the Xilinx Webpack application no longer needs to be installed. Also added is full support for the new Papilio One Gadget boards, both the 250K and 500K…