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  • Project to program SPI Flash attached to Xilinx FPGA’s.

    Work is underway to adapt a reference design used for programming SPI Flash attached to Xilinx FPGA’s. The SPI Flasher project is in support of the Sump Pump Logic Analyzer project.

  • Get involved with current development of a $30 dedicated Logic Analyzer board.

    Head over to the SUMP Pump project to follow or join our efforts to create a low cost dedicated Logic Analyzer board. Our target selling price for a dedicated 100Mhz 32 channel Logic Analyzer is $30.

  • Costs for International shipping reduced in the store.

    There was a problem with the online store that was causing the prices for International shipping to be way too high. An update to the USPS shipping module fixed the pricing with International Shipping costs. It should only cost $13 to ship to international locations with USPS Priority mail. This option does not include a…

  • Lots of minor tweaks done to the website.

    New stuff like the Community section where people can request new Wings (standardized peripherals) or even start their own Butterfly Platform related project. Quick search and expanded search options such as Google search were added to the search tab. The Google search option will search all of the GadgetFactory.net domain which includes the wikis, blogs,…

  • New Demo Video of AVR8 Running C code.

    There is a new video of the AVR8 Soft Processor running C code was posted to the Front Page and the AVR8 project page. The AVR8 is an AVR compatible soft processor that is patterned after the ATmega103 processor.

  • Blog added to sidebar on Front Page.

    The contents of the Blog have been added to the sidebar on the front page of www.GadgetFactory.net.

  • OC8051 working with BRAM

    I was able to synthesize a design with BRAM and am able to update the contents of the BRAM/ROM in the bitstream. Now for testing with actual hardware tomorrow.

  • Porting OC8051 processor to Butterfly Platform.

    I’m working on porting the OC8051 project from OpenCores to the Butterfly Platform. The ultimate goal is to have a core that supports a c compiler like gcc or sdcc and that supports wishbone for easily connecting Wings. I’ve got the design synthesizing but am running into trouble with the ROM. It appears that the…