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FPGA projects

  • 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…

  • Clever Exploitation Of Vivado HLS To Make A FIR Filter And More

    By way of Colin O’Flynn over at NewAE, we’ve got a wonderful video showing how to basically exploit the Xilinx HLS (High-Level Synthesis) in Vivado to make your own FIR filter in only about 25 minutes! I could attempt to write a synopsis of what is covered in the video, but as they say –…

  • Initial Impressions: Firing Up The Papilio Pro

    Well, what do ya know! Duane Benson over at All Programmable Planet has another nice article up, this time on the subject of getting his Papilio Pro ready. Ready to do his bidding, that is! If you read the previous article here about the progress of the tele-presence robotic avatar that Duane is working on,…

  • Status Update On Papilio-Based Robot Avatar Project

    Here’s a great follow-up on the progress of Duane Benson’s Papilio-based tele-presence avatar project which we covered here on the blog a little while back. Looks like he is moving forward with the overall implementation in strides. Referring to the photo above, Duane gives us the run-down from a hardware standpoint: Toward the lower-left, we…

  • Tutorial: Running Nut/OS On DE0-Nano For Internet Radio

    Courtesy of Emb4fun, Michael Fischer posted a wonderfully detailed tutorial for getting the Nios II soft processor up and running on his Altera DE0-Nano FPGA, complete with Nut/OS.  The tutorial is as about as in-depth as they come. The tutorial comes in three easy-to-follow sections, and is complete with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. The first…

  • Vector Graphics Arcade Games On An FPGA

    This is a pretty cool reincarnation of the old-school vector graphics arcade games – now reborn on FPGA. You just might recognize vector graphics from such classic arcade games as Asteroids, Gravitar, and Tempest. Vector was an interesting display technology at the time, differentiating itself from pixel-based video game graphics by using a method of…

  • Augmented Reality Edge-Detection Game On DE-2 FPGA

    The cool FPGA projects just won’t let up over at Cornell University. In this one, we’ve got students Chris Fairfax, Matheus Ogleari, and Aadeetya Shreedha with their realtime edge-detection physics-based ball game implimented on an Altera DE-2 dev board. This is some seriously cool design. The project uses the Sobel operator to detect the edges…

  • Accelerometer Tilt Sensing On Altera DE0 Nano FPGA

    We found a great tutorial for using an accelerometer’s tilt data on an FPGA over at Pyro Electro. In this particular project, they’re using an Altera DE0-Nano board (and using the built-in accelerometer), a breadboard, the DE0-Nano Development Suite software, (32x) 100 mega resistors, (32x) green LEDs, and jumper wires. Check out the video above,…