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  • Acrylic Enclosures For Papilio Pro Now Back In Stock!

    Hello, hackers! Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that the acrylic enclosures for the Papilio Pro are now back in stock at the store. There has been a hefty demand for these, and the design (by Os1r1s) is absolutely stunning. If you’re going to hack around with your PPro, we recommend that…

  • How to initialize a sine/cosine lookup table with a couple lines of VHDL.

    Papilio user Alex posted this gem in the Papilio Forum. He came across an excellent article over at Jim Wu’s FPGA blog with some super easy ways to initialize memory. Whether you are defining a sin, cosine, sawtooth, or any manner of lookup table its super easy to do it mathematically using this example code.…

  • New Ethernet Wing For Papilio – 50% Off One Day Only Sale!

    Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Ethernet Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $9.99 for the first day only.  That day is today!  I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Ethernet…

  • “Really Dumb” MIDI Monitor For RetroCade

    Forum member Offroad recently hit us up with an example project, which is  based on the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth. He’s calling it the Really Dumb MIDI Monitor.  This deserves a bit of explanation: For starters, Offroad explains what he means by the term, “really dumb meaning: All the fun stuff like printf(“%02c”, byte) happens in…

  • Want to use your Papilio as an official download cable?

    If you need to use your Papilio with the Xilinx tools; such as EDK, chipscope, or Impact there is an exciting new tool to make this happen. For many years Xilinx has been closed up when it comes to any information about how to make a board compatible with the Xilinx tools. They finally released…

  • VHDL examples for the SPI ADC Analog Wing

    Papilio enthusiasts Hamster and Offroad put together some nice examples of interfacing with the SPI ADC chip used in the Analog Wing, LogicStart MegaWing, and the RetroCade MegaWing. Hamster’s example is up on his Hamsterworks Wiki and provides a great writeup with diagram’s, background info, and datasheet links. Full VHDL code is available but you…

  • New release of ZAP IDE and Papilio Schematic Library

    Well, as promised we have a new release of the ZAP IDE and Papilio Schematic Library. This new release integrates the Papilio Schematic Library into the ZAP IDE for an integrated design environment that lets you draw circuits to run on your Papilio FPGA.   Download the latest version of the ZAP IDE with the…

  • Join us in the forum and help shape the next generation Papilio board!

    Hey everyone! We’ve learned a lot from the Papilio One and the Papilio Pro, its time to take those lessons and apply them to a next generation Papilio board. I mentioned a new board earlier, similar to the never released Papilio Logic, and many of you privately provided some great feedback. My head is swimming…