FPGA
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CRT vector graphics arcade game built from an FPGA board
Sprite_tm is a big FPGA fan and he was always looking for a nice project to polish his VHDL skills with. Luckily the company he’s working for decided to clean up storage and throw away some broken PCBs and that’s how he got some old FPGA hardware. “…To control all that, there was a XC2V1000;…
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PSP LCD on FPGA
This is a really nice project that we found on the TFT-LCD module LQ043T3DX02 Sharp, best known as the display used in the PlayStation Portable (PSP) up and running with an FPGA development board. It’s not just a simple tutorial on that screen but you will find every information you need to get this hardware…
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Free ebook on VHDL available for download
For everyone who seeks a solid guide to help them develop their VHDL skills here is a free book we found that will help you get all that and much more. The book was written by Bryan Mealy and Fabrizio Tappero, you can download the electronic version of this book for free here: freerangefactory.org “Feedback and…
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A Nice Collection Of Code Tools For The Papilio
Mike Field has put up a wiki bursting with all kinds of code for many aspects of the Papilio board, as well as a number of test projects for the Papilio + Arcade MegaWing hardware. We’re happy for everyone who has a Papilio, as many of these items are really handy to have at the…
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VHDL Tutorials With Mike Field
Happy New Year! 2012 is the year that the Mayans predicted would be the end of the world, or some such rot. Don’t worry, we don’t believe in this at all. We believe in hard science. But if you believe, then there’s not much time left – so why not get started with some FPGA goodness? Papilio enthusiast…
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Structuring An FPGA Project
The way you think about designing with VHDL is a lot like how you design a circuit board. This is a good article that we found over at Embedded.com on the finer points of structuring an FPGA project. The article relays some very important concepts, and we thought you guys would find it useful. “…the highest…
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Learning VHDL With Robin Debreuil
(And the answer, for five MILLION dollars….contestant one?) Here’s an excellent article we found over at Robin Debreuil’s blog concerning a number of VHDL concepts and implementation. It’s a great read, and we thought it’d be cool to post here for any Papilio owners and/ or VHDL coders to take a look at! Robin totally attacks…
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Translating Verilog to VHDL for Galaxian
A little while back, we received some user contributed code from reader and Papilio user Alex, for converting Verilog code to VHDL. The article illustrates the conversion for the game Galaxian. If you’re learning VHDL, or are interested in Verilog to VHDL conversion, Alex’s article lays it out nicely for you with examples from Katsumi Degawa’s Galaxian FPGA project. With…