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VHDL 101: Beginner’s Guide To VHDL
Paul Clark from Design Spark has a great wiki on VHDL 101 – Combinational Logic that we thought we’d repost here to give those of you that are new to VHDL kind of a kick start. This one is actually the follow-up to his first article titled What Is VHDL that has some great explanations of…
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Your FPGA Is Better Than You Are At Chess
Yes, your FPGA board can beat you at chess. At least, that’s the objective of Warren Miller over at All Programmable Planet in his series titled A Chess-Playing FPGA. Warren has been thinking about “developing a different way of thinking about solving complex problems using FPGAs, as opposed to the traditional sequential approach we are…
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DIY Screen-Printed PCB Manufacturing Is Slightly Crazy
If MacGyver were to manufacture his own PCBs, this is definitely how he would do it. We’re talking hairdryers, ovens, a garden hose, a pile of bricks, a couple of UV bulbs, a piece of glass, a makeshift hazmat suit and some chemicals. The DIY spirit is alive and well in this vid! The printed circuit boards made…
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Shen Zhen Maker Faire 2013 Sponsored By Seeed Studio
There’s an awesome maker’s convention being hosted by Seeed Studio this year, so we wanted to drop you guys a quick line about the 2013 Shen Zhen Maker Faire in China. Since we have a global readership, there’s no telling where you guys are at. So on the off chance that you’re near Shen Zhen,…
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Experimental CPU Project On FPGA
Victor over at FPGA Related has an inventive new CPU project that he’s been working on and running on an FPGA. In his article, Victor shares his design, implementation notes, and code for a different kind of CPU – featuring a novel token machine that resolves an 8-bit token to pretty much any address in…
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pcDuino Is A Mini PC + Arduino, Coming Soon To The GF Store
We’d like to introduce you to the pcDuino – a high performance mini PC with an Arduino style interface. The pcDuino is cool because it can run full operating systems like Ubuntu and/or Android ICS, can connect to your network, and is even compatible with Arduino shields! The pcDuino is powered by ARM Pro. Here…
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In-Fabric Serialization: 1080p DVI-D With a Spartan 6 LX FPGA
Mike Field, best known as “hamster” came up with an innovative way to display 1080p video at 60Hz from a Spartan 6 LX FPGA. It really came down to a workaround solution given the transmission speeds of the board vs. what is reqired for 1080p video at 60Hz. Mike explains: So how did Mike get…
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Cray-1 Supercomputer Recreated On FPGA
FPGA Cray 1-A (left) and the original Cray-1 supercomputer (right) Self-described “computational necromancer” Chris Fenton lives up to this description given his penchant for recreating classic computer hardware using FPGAs. With the assistance of the original design documents, reference manuals, and the like Chris recreated the iconic 1976 Cray-1 supercomputer on a Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600…
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