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Coming Soon: Papilio LogicStart MegaWing
The LogicStart MegaWing is coming soon to a Gadget Factory store near you! We just finished verification of the board and the first production run is being initiated as we speak. In preparation we put together this video that gives a look at the LogicStart MegaWing in action. What is the LogicStart MegaWing? The LogicStart…
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MPX soft-core processor running on the Papilio One 250K
UltraEmbedded has managed to run a ‘MPX’ soft-core processor on a Papilio One 250K board: “‘MPX’ is a 32-bit soft-core pipelined RISC processor written in Verilog.The processor implements the majority of MIPS-I™ ISA excluding the formally patented unaligned load/store instructions & also the hw multiplier / divider (mult, multu, div, divu) instructions.” The missing instructions can…
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Check out what it takes to recreate the Bomb Jack game in VHDL.
Alex, who did this writeup about translating Galaxian’s Verilog code to VHDL is at it again with an exciting new project. He decided to see what it takes to recreate one of his favorite Arcade games (Bomb Jack) using only VHDL, the games schematic, the Open Source T80 Soft Processor, and technical information available on…
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$10 VGA camera on the Papilio One? How about a free PCB to try it yourself?
Several months ago we designed a Wing for the OV7670 camera that can be found on Ebay for around $10. To our delight Voelker contributed VHDL code to interface with the very same camera! To show our appreciation for this contribution we are giving away all the Wing PCB’s that we have sitting on our…
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Bootstrapping SRAM from FLASH on the Papilio Plus
We all know how flexible an FPGA can be but it’s still limited by the amount of resources it has especially when it comes to running a big project that requires a large amounts of memory whether it’s ram, rom or both.For that reason it is handy to have external memory attached to the FPGA…
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Papilio Arcade now easy as MAME with Arcade Blaster App
Here at Gadget Factory we’re happy to announce that the first release of the Arcade Blaster application is now officially available for download! The new Arcade Blaster application makes it easier then ever to load games to the Papilio Arcade hardware. It works just like MAME, simply provide ROMs that you own and it takes…
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AC ’97 Audio Wing for the Papilio One
The picture above shows a very nice audio interface wing for the Papilio one that Rudzz designed and here is an excellent topic that he has started on our forum to share with us what he has come up with. “I have been working on trying to create a nice audio interface wing for the Papilio…
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Fractal Viewer For Papilio, Controlled By Papilio Arcade
Mike Field has written a Mandelbrot fractal generator/ viewer that runs on the Papilio platform, and he’s controlling the zoom and scroll functions with the Papilio Arcade MegaWing. We found an article over at Hackaday about this that sheds some light on the technical details of the project: “Calculations to generate the shape are being run…