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  • At Maker Faire Lisbon: ZPUino

    Our good friend Alvaro Lopes is going to be at the Lisbon Maker Faire from the 19th – 21st of September 2014. So if you are in the area be sure to stop by the ZPUino booth and say hello! ZPUino is a SoC (System on a Chip) developed by Álvaro Lopes , a senior…

  • Flavia: the Free Logic Array

    Check out this amazing project from John Beetem. Make small Digital Logic designs without the heavyweight vendor tools. Flavia tool chain lets you make bit files for the Papilio One 250K with completely FLOSS software! Only CPLD sized designs are possible, but this is a boon for learning Digital Logic on ARM based boards like…

  • DIY: build your own oscilloscope

    Check out this cool FPGA project to make a DIY oscilloscope done for a school project. Nicely done! We( Haolin and Joris ) built this oscilloscope last semester for a school project. The ADC chosen is a high performance differential ADC which uses Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS). A FPGA is used to interface the ADC accounting…

  • Interview with Clive “Max” Maxfield the driving force behind the legendary AllProgrammablePlanet Blog

    While AllProgrammablePlanet blog is no longer online it still remains the stuff of legends. It came out of nowhere and united FPGA enthusiasts everywhere, providing a great community to talk and learn about FPGA’s. It ran for about 18 months under the capable hands of Clive “Max” Maxfield who I had the pleasure of meeting…

  • 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…

  • 8086tiny: A tiny PC emulator in less then 25K of code!

    Hamster tipped us off to this cool project in the forum. Coming in at less then 25K of C code this 8086 emulator still supports all the peripherals you would expect: with support for PC peripherals including XT-style keyboard, floppy/hard disk, clock, and Hercules graphics. 8086tiny is powerful enough to run software like AutoCAD, Windows…

  • We have a B/LED Wing overstock! Take advantage and get one for $4.99!

    Hello everyone, today we are happy to announce a special offer on the Button/LED Wing 🙂 so if you are a Papilio user and you still don’t have this wing this is a great opportunity to get one for just $4.99 instead of the original price of $14.99 ! Moreover if you plan to buy…

  • BeagleBone Black Gaming Cape Project

    We had a chance to meet and greet with the guys responsible for manufacturing the BeagleBone Linux platform back in May at Design West 2013. Turns out, the platform is continuing to pick up steam, and is one of the boards that Texas Instruments’ 2013 Design Challenge is supporting and accepting design entries on. We’re…