Design
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How To Create You Own Design Displayed On A RGB LED Matrix With Your FPGA
Today´s article presents a fantastic video tutorial about designing and building your own FPGA RGB LED matrix to display anything you want. Nowadays it´s pretty easy to buy an RGB LED matrix on internet, so you only need to connect your FPGA to it and build and implement your own design. So, you better follow…
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How To Build Your Own Giant Digit Grid
Today´s post presents a great article for almost everybody. Whether you like real making from scratch, writing code or just working with an FPGA, keep reading. Somehow the author was fascinated by LED digit displays at some point in his life and so he decided he had to build his own giant LED digit grid.…
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How To Control What You See On A Screen in Two Hours and For Less Than $25!
Imagine how cool it would be to control what appears on your screen and at a bargain price, just using your FPGA (yes! Your Papilio!) and some other easy-to-get components. All you need is read today´s article (and buy the tiny things of course). This how-to post is one of those which are written thinking…
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Feeling like Barenboim? Check it with your FPGA!
Today´s article shows how a group of students from Cornell University, created a hardware-software set of tools to develop and composed your own music, the Audio Composer and Conducting Suite (A.C.C.S). This virtual conducting environment platform is capable of inputting the compositions from a video camera and a keyboard or a conductor waving his/her hands…
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Here is How The Dark Side Got Started With Their Robot Army!
Nowadays, you may be fed up of Star Wars jokes, baits and so on. I am sorry, I could not resist the temptation. Anyway, this time, at least, was not a joke nor a lie. Today´s article brings the real truth to you. If you want to build your own robot, as simple as you…
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You´ve got the Power in your hand or, better said, in the Wheel of your mouse!
https://youtu.be/cWH4kVPpL3Y Today´s article will teach you how to build a system to control big power. You can use it to manage a simple light bulb or a 0.5 kW motor without having to change a single line of code. The key of this design is the implementation of a widely-used jellybean wheel from a…
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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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How To: Designing An FPGA Based Graphics Controller For HD
By way of EE Times, here’s a lengthy, if not highly informative nitty-gritty on designing an HD FPGA graphics controller. “Using faster memories and embedded hardware blocks let us to design more complex and more powerful designs – designs which just a year or so ago would have been hard to implement without using…