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Acrylic Enclosures For Papilio Pro Now Back In Stock!
Hello, hackers! Just wanted to drop you all a quick note that the acrylic enclosures for the Papilio Pro are now back in stock at the store. There has been a hefty demand for these, and the design (by Os1r1s) is absolutely stunning. If you’re going to hack around with your PPro, we recommend that…
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Litecoin Mining With FPGA – This Is Cool
Is anyone keeping up with the newer Bitcoin successor, Litecoin? We wanted to provide some information for you about the newest peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license. Yes, it’s completely open-source, and you can mine these little guys on your FPGA platform. Educate yourself a “bit” before we go…
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How to initialize a sine/cosine lookup table with a couple lines of VHDL.
Papilio user Alex posted this gem in the Papilio Forum. He came across an excellent article over at Jim Wu’s FPGA blog with some super easy ways to initialize memory. Whether you are defining a sin, cosine, sawtooth, or any manner of lookup table its super easy to do it mathematically using this example code.…
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New Ethernet Wing For Papilio – 50% Off One Day Only Sale!
Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Ethernet Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $9.99 for the first day only. That day is today! I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Ethernet…
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“Really Dumb” MIDI Monitor For RetroCade
Forum member Offroad recently hit us up with an example project, which is based on the Papilio Pro and the RetroCade Synth. He’s calling it the Really Dumb MIDI Monitor. This deserves a bit of explanation: For starters, Offroad explains what he means by the term, “really dumb meaning: All the fun stuff like printf(“%02c”, byte) happens in…
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Want to use your Papilio as an official download cable?
If you need to use your Papilio with the Xilinx tools; such as EDK, chipscope, or Impact there is an exciting new tool to make this happen. For many years Xilinx has been closed up when it comes to any information about how to make a board compatible with the Xilinx tools. They finally released…
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VHDL examples for the SPI ADC Analog Wing
Papilio enthusiasts Hamster and Offroad put together some nice examples of interfacing with the SPI ADC chip used in the Analog Wing, LogicStart MegaWing, and the RetroCade MegaWing. Hamster’s example is up on his Hamsterworks Wiki and provides a great writeup with diagram’s, background info, and datasheet links. Full VHDL code is available but you…
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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…
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