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Papilio

  • Papilio And pcDuino Together As A USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter

    Here’s a great and simple project using a Papilio One and a pcDuino together for the purpose of making a USB to 3.3V TTL RS232 adapter. This is from Mike Field’s site Hamsterworks where he’s got a full project description and the code to go along with it! Mike says, Cool project, Mike.  It just…

  • Screen Recycling: Papilio Driving A Junker LCD Screen

    Papilio user James wrote in on the the forums about his LCD display project that he has been working on.  James is using his Papilio, a junked old Epson EG2401 monochrome LCD display, and a buffer board that he built from scratch.  It’s similar to another junked display project that we posted a while ago, yet…

  • In-Fabric Serialization: 1080p DVI-D With a Spartan 6 LX FPGA

    Mike Field, best known as “hamster” came up with an innovative way to display 1080p video at 60Hz from a Spartan 6 LX FPGA. It really came down to a workaround solution given the transmission speeds of the board vs. what is reqired for 1080p video at 60Hz. Mike explains: So how did Mike get…

  • VHDL SD Card Writer v1.0 For Papilio

    Forum user Matt Ownby has put together some code to be able to write data at full speed (50 MHz) to an SD card, and was kind enough to share it with us!  This is VHDL code for the Papillio One FPGA board that shows how to write to an SD card in a high-speed mode. Here’s the…

  • High Speed Data Transfer Between Two Papilios

    Mike Field (hamster) of Hamsterworks has written a new tutorial on how to achieve a high-speed data transfer between two Papilio One 250k boards.  The goal of the project was to achieve data transfer at 400 mbps, and Mike wound up exceeding the target by a pretty good margin. From Mike’s project description, The aim…

  • Sneak Peek – Build Arduino-Compatible SOCs With New Schematic Editor

    Today we wanted to give you a sneak peek at a new SOC (System On Chip) schematic editor for Papilio that we are working on.  The editor is a drag and drop system that makes it easy (even for beginners) to draw schematics even without necessarily having VHDL experience.  Jack says, What we need is…

  • Watch My Pins! Serial Pro Compatible With Papilio, ZPUino

    We’ve got a quick resource list for Alvie’s Serial Pro (SerPro) here for you today.  Serial Pro is compatible with Papilio and ZPUino, and is RPC-like, fast, small and useful for when you don’t want your data to be lost or corrupted. Alvie says, This library (actually a set of C++ templates) was developed for my arduino…

  • Arcade Game Trifecta On Papilio Pro, Arcade MegaWing

    Forum user and regular contributor Alex recently dropped us a line on the forums.  He was saying something about getting new arcade games running on the Papilio Pro with the Arcade MegaWing.  Turns out he’s got three arcade games going (Ladybug, Dorodon, and Cosmic Avenger) and is using a PS/2 keyboard for controls. Alex says, [The games]…