Well, what do ya know! Duane Benson over at All Programmable Planet has another nice article up, this time on the subject of getting his Papilio Pro ready. Ready to do his bidding, that is!
If you read the previous article here about the progress of the tele-presence robotic avatar that Duane is working on, I think you’ll agree that this one sheds a bit more light on where he’s coming from and how he is approaching his endgame. Let’s check in real quick – regarding how he seems to blow up his GPIO:
In order to deal with my exploding GPIO problem, I didn’t go to group therapy. Instead, I purchased two Gadget Factory 16-bit I/O buffer wings when I ordered the Papilio Pro. They cost a lot less than a new FPGA board and are completely transparent to the FPGA configuration. The image [above] shows the Papilio Pro, one of my I/O buffer wings, an LED/button wing, and a breadboard with a switch and four LEDs.
Before getting back to work on my robot avatar, I wanted to give the Papilio Pro a quick run-through to see what changes I might need when migrating my existing designs from the Avnet/Xilinx Spartan-6 LX9 board.
Click through to Mr. Benson’s article to see what his thoughts and ideas are. It is a great read, as per usual:
- Powering Up The Papilio Pro (All Programmable Planet)
(via All Programmable Planet)
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