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ROMGen v3.01 r4
Papilio user Felix has started a new forum topic to share with us his his latest release of the romgen tool. He was able to add new functionality to do some simple bitswaps and handle different encryption types: “by including the -ini switch on the command line, it is capable of doing some simple bitswaps on…
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8 digit frequency counter project quick update.
After designing a 8 digit frequency counter using a Dx display and a Papilio One board hamster finally got a Digilent GPS PMOD and completed the project by making a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter and everything is working as expected 🙂 Here is a picture of the GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter in action: Dont…
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8 digit frequency counter using the Papilio One
Papilio user hamster designed a 8 digit frequency counter using his Dx display and he’s looking to get a GPS module to complete the project and make a GPS referenced 100MHz frequency counter. Here is a video of the frequency counter in action: . And here is a list of the parts needed to make…
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Storing user data on your FPGA
One thing that makes FPGAs so great is flexibility and the unlimited type of projects that can be made using an FPGA, however, it’s still limited by the amount of resources it has especially when you want to run a big project that requires a large amount of memory space. Papilio user hamster a.k.a Mike…
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Linux on the Papilio Pro?
Linux on the Papilio Pro? Alvaro Lopes has Linux running on the ZPUino simulator and expects it to run on PPro soon! Watch the video of Linux running on the ZPUino simulator, everything including the SD card is simulated and helped him speed up the porting process. Now that everything is working in the simulator…
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Alex makes HDMI Wing to drive salvaged laptop display with Papilio Plus!
Alex designs an HDMI Wing and a custom PCB that lets him connect his salvaged LVDS laptop monitor to the HDMI Wing on his Papilio Plus. Next we need to get this working on the soon to come Papilio Pro! To read the full thread. Finally! PCB goodness in them mails. Feels like xmas. First…
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I2C Master Writer VHDL code
Papilio user Wicked wrote some nice VHDL code that performs I2C writes with the goal to initialize a camera and video encoder. Wicked was originally sending the I2C initializations commands using a Picoblaze soft processor but that wasted a lot of memory that would be better used by the camera. So he decided to write…
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Synth project for the LogicStart MegaWing
Hamster (a.k.a Mike Field) has started a new topic on our community forum to share with us his new “Music Box” project that he made using his Papilio FPGA board and the LogicStart MegaWing. The Synth project can actually carry a tune by make the correct sound at the correct time and the sound can…