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  • Nice Case For The Papilio Pro!

    Do you have a Papilio FPGA board or any type of Papilio MegaWings and want to house it in a nice case to protect it from any potencial damage? Our forum member Sonny has come up with a great solution, he managed to design a nice case for his Papilio Pro as you can see…

  • Progress on Duane Benson’s robot avatar! Navigation…

    Duane Benson, over at All Programmable Planet, is working on a robot avatar to rule the world! Or at least fill in for him at conferences. 🙂 He is documenting his progress in a series of articles entitled, “Discovering FPGA’s” which has been a great read. Here are some links if you want to catch…

  • A free version of Microblaze Soft Processor available in Coregen!

    Ever wanted to check out Xilinx’s premier Microblaze Soft Processor but the $500 EDK license was too pricey? Well, Magnus Karlsson pointed out that there is a free lightweight version of Microblaze, called Microblaze MCS, available in ISE’s Coregen wizard. Even better, here is a tutorial showing how to get up and running with it!…

  • Papilio Pro Breathes New Life Into Old Laptop Display

    Papilio Pro user James Glanville recently posted a great project that he’s been working on, over at the Gadget Factory forums. He was nice enough to share his code and some photos for the project, in which he has got his Papilio Pro hooked up to an old laptop LCD display that he had sitting around the workshop.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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]…