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  • Would you like a free Zynq-based Digilent ZYBO dev board? Win one over at the ARM Connected Community

        It is not Open Hardware as per se, but it is FREE!! If you have a good project they pick get yourself a free ZYBO Zync ARM/FPGA board. The digilent ZYBO board based on the Xilinx Zynq SoC is a full-featured development board with 512Mbytes of DDR3 SDRAM, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, MicroSD slot, OTG…

  • FloPoCo: Very interesting custom floating point and vhdl math function generator

    I found this interesting library/tool for doing floating point functionality on FPGA that looks designed specifically for FPGA’s, not general purpose CPU’s. Might be great if you needed to add some floating point calcuations to a circuit or a ZPUino sketch more efficiently than the arduino software libraries. Circuits computing just right… FPGA Arithmetic the…

  • Simple Tools for Low Level ZPUino Hacking

      Monsonite is working on a visual debugger for the ZPUino that utilizes the new VGA peripheral that Alvie recently released. Monsonite’s debugger shows the disassembled machine language and memory regions to help you debug your ZPUino code. He’s put one weekend of work into this so far and plans to keep going with more…

  • Using a FPGA as a CAD engine

    Papilio DUO user Monsonite just posted about a cool project he is making with the ZPUino and the new VGA adapter. It’s a self contained CAD engine and he already has a LQFP-64 footprint rendering on the screen. Stop by the forum and check it out! Hi Jack and Forum, I have been experimenting with…

  • ChipWhisperer-Lite: A New Era of Hardware Security Research

    Our favorite FPGA security hacker, Colin O’Flynn, has a new Kickstarter project that just went online. It’s the ChipWhisperer-Lite which packs a serious punch with a Spartan 6 FPGA, 10-bit ADC, and an XMega Micro. Included with the board is software and tutorials to get you up to speed with embedded hardware security research projects…

  • The Papilio DUO and the new shields are finally here!

    Here at Gadget Factory we are happy to announce that our next generation of products are now available at our online store. The long awaited Papilio DUO along with the new Papilio Shields are finally here after a successful Kickstarter campaign that helped us raise more than $62.000 in funds to make this dream come…

  • Papilio DUO Pre-Order Is Now Enabled In The Store!

    Good news everyone 🙂 the Papilio DUO and the Papilio Shields are expected to arrive in stock early next week and we are now taking pre-orders for the new items in the Gadget Factory Store. We encourage you to pre-order now and reserve your DUO because the numbers will be limited since the big part…

  • Please electronic hobbyists… start using FPGA’s!

    We were just emailed about this cool FPGA/Papilio video so we thought we should share it on the blog. Check it out! This video will explain why FPGA’s are great to build your projects on! via www.youtube.com