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  • Nine Digit Problem Solved In 2.2 ms The FPGA Way

    Here’s the problem: The folks over at Programmable Gatorade wanted to take this classic math problem and put their Altera Cyclone IV FPGA board to use in solving it. The design uses the board’s 50MHz clock and finds the solution in approximately 2.2ms. There are three main components to the design: a module to calculate…

  • How To: Using State Machines With FPGAs

    We found a great article by Adam Taylor (Principal Engineer, EADS Astrium) that illustrates in detail how to implement state machines with your FPGA board. For anyone that is interested, Mr. Taylor provides a comprehensive tutorial on using the two classes of state machines (Moore and Mealy), state machine definitions, state machine encoding, and much…

  • Undocumented Dx display running with an FPGA

    He everyone! Today we got another great FPGA based project for you that we found over at hamsterworks.co.nz. Mike Field a.k.a Hamster wanted to use an undocumented display board from Deal Extreme with an FPGA board but as mentioned in the title there was absolutely no documentation available for this display except an Arduino Library written…

  • FPGA DC Motor Control

    Hey everyone! Here is a nice project that we found over at PyroElectro.com over how to interface to an FPGA to allow precise control over a DC motor! Chris from Pyroelectro wrote a very nice documentation to explain how to use a CPLD or an FPGA to take input from one device and then output…

  • Driving a cheap PSP screen with an FPGA!

    As you can see in the slider above FlorianH got a PSP screen up and running with his DE0-Nano FPGA board. the screen is a cheap Sharp LQ043 which is a  4.3″ true color TFT display and FlorianH has long wanted to use it for something and finally got it hooked up to his FPGA…

  • Programming FPGAs with Python

    For everyone who wants to get started with developing for FPGA’s and dont want to waste time in learning a new programming  language or they just want to use their current knowledge of programming with Python to program an FPGA, this tool is just made for you! The Python Hardware Processsor is written in Myhdl…

  • FPGA Snake game uses no VHDL at all

    Remeber the DE2 FPGA board we talked about in the last post that ECE 5760 students used to implement their HAND BREAKING BRICKS game, this time the same FPGA board is used for the implementation of the game SNAKE. It’s not a normal version of the game.But what is special with this version is that…

  • FPGA Breakout Game controlled with hand motions!

    ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a breakout game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS but this game is not controlled the way classic breakout games are, it’s controlled with hand motions!! The project is basically consisting of a CCD camera, a DE2 FPGA board and a VGA monitor…