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  • 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…

  • Papilio Pro Spanish Review

    Pedro Hernandez is a cofounder of  Pcdemano.com a spanish website that makes reviews about the Arduino, raspberry pi, BananaPi and more.  He recently decided to add FPGA’s to that list and chose the Papilio Pro as an FPGA development board to start with. Today he posted his first review for an FPGA board and a nice introduction to FPGA’s for all the Spanish…

  • Hamster’s HDMI Input Wing in Action!

    Check this out, this is really cool. In this video Hamster grabs HDMI input from a special Wing that he designed and then converts it to 8-bit VGA format so he can send it out of the 8-bit VGA port of the LogicStart MegaWing! Take a look at this video of it in action: http://youtu.be/AvHPYmEQb04 Find…

  • Retrocade ADC Demo project for PlanAhead

    Papilio community member “Offroad” put together this nice little ADC demo for the RetroCade Synth. It puts the ADC chips through their paces and includes a PlanAhead project and source code.         Anyway, one result is an ADC demo that got out of necessity a little more polished than planned. Controls LED…

  • MAX5556 Audio DAC Wing For The Papilio

    Papilio user Fantasma25 has designed a new audio DAC wing and decided to share his work with us on the forum. The new wing It’s based on the MAX5556 DAC, it has an I2S-compatible interface and up to 50KHz sampling rate which is perfect for standard 44.1 and 48 KHz sampling rates and a resolution of 16 and 24 bits.…

  • Hamster makes a frequency counter that works up to 500Mhz!

    Hamster makes a frequency counter that works up to 500Mhz on the Papilio FPGA!!!!!    

  • New tool to calculate DCM Multiply and Divide values.

    Alvaro made a nice tool to automatically calculate Multiply and Divide values needed to use Xilinx DCM’s and PLL’s. It even cascade’s PLLs to generate unusual frequencies.

  • MiSoC (successor to Milkymist SOC) example for Papilio Pro

    Sébastien Bourdeauducq, the creator of the MilkyMist FPGA and SOC, was kind enough to put together an example project of his new MiSoC system for the Papilio Pro. It is a Python based system and it looks really great, check out the specs: LatticeMico32 CPU, modified to include an optional MMU (experimental). There is a work-in-progress…