Jack Gassett
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Introducing the Butterfly One, a streamlined FPGA dev board with a target price of $40-$50.
The finishing touches are being put on the Butterfly One which is going to become the core offering at Gadget Factory. The Butterfly One is a simplified and streamlined FPGA development kit that will be the platform for REDe (Rapid Electronics Design Environment) development. The Butterfly One has been streamlined for easy manufacturing and an…
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Butterfly Loader 1.1 Available for download.
New 1.1 version of the Butterfly Loader released. The new features are: Support for the XC3S500E chip. Ability to reset the FPGA before loading a new bitstream.
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VHDL for Stepper Controller Wing released under Creative Commons License.
The Stepper Controller Peripheral Core project has released VHDL code under the Creative Commons License. The core allows the 1 Axis Stepper Controller Wing to be controlled through a register based interface. When coupled with the REDe Multi-Peripheral Core; Soft Processors and Tech adapters, such as the AVR8 and the Arduino Wing, can control the…
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Button/LED Wing VHDL Core released.
VHDL source code which allows Soft Processors like the AVR8, Tech Adapters such as the Arduino adapter, and standalone HDL to control the BPW5007 Button/LED Wing with a register based interface is now available. Head over to the BPW5007 Button/LED Peripheral Core project homepage to view the code and more details.
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Low Cost Logic Analyzer prototypes built and working!
The low cost Logic Analyzer prototypes have been built and are up and running. Up next is some more testing and then look for them to be available for purchase soon.
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Power Cocoon to reduce cost of standalone FPGA solution to under $50.
Work is underway on a low cost Power Cocoon which can provide power to all Spartan 3E Cocoons. The goal is to bring the cost of a standalone FPGA solution to under $50. The Power Cocoon coupled with the upcoming 2.01 Spartan 3E Cocoon will provide a Butterfly that is low cost and cuts the…
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Low Cost Logic Analyzer design is finished.
Version 1 of the Low Cost Logic Analyzer, codenamed “Sump Pump”, has been finished and submitted to a board house. There is a contest to come up with the best name over at Ian’s forum. The best name wins a free board! Check out the project page for more info.
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Easy Unit Conversions and Electronic information with WolframAlpha.
For extremely easy unit conversions and other electronics mathematics try the WolframAlpha website. Want to see an oddball value like 100nF expressed in more common units? Type “100pF” into WolframAlpha and see it expressed in different units. Want to know the frequency of 4.5ns? Type “4.5ns” into WolframAlpha and see the frequency and much more.…