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FPGA

  • DIY: build your own oscilloscope

    Check out this cool FPGA project to make a DIY oscilloscope done for a school project. Nicely done! We( Haolin and Joris ) built this oscilloscope last semester for a school project. The ADC chosen is a high performance differential ADC which uses Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS). A FPGA is used to interface the ADC accounting…

  • SD card testing

    Check it out as Hamster plays around with SD cards. So far he has it initializing the card using VHDL! Here is the test setup – a Papilio FPGA board from http://www.gadgetfactory.net/, and a SD adapter from http://www.futurlec.com/: via hamsterworks.co.nz

  • DIY 8-Bit Computer Using An FPGA and Classic Computer CPUs In VHDL

    We found a pretty unique project that was covered recently over at Hackaday, involving a hacked-together 8-bit retro-styled computer.  The kicker here is that it was made using an FPGA combined with  VHDL inplementations of classic CPUs such as the 6502, 6809, and Z80. In its full configuration, the Multicomp, as [Grant] calls his project, includes…

  • Hacked, MIDI-Enabled Dot Matrix Printer Plays “Eye Of The Tiger”

    Woah, this is nuts. I remember my dot matrix printer from back in the day. I remember that it simply made a lot of racket, and what a pain it was to have to tear the feeder strips off of each side of the printed pages… Fast forward to 2014 (like only a week ago),…

  • 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…

  • Piano Hero, touch without a touchscreen!

    Today we got an exciting project that we want to share with you. A group of students at the Cornell University have developed a virtual piano system that allows the user to play piano on the screen, I know you are thinking that there is nothing special here but what if I tell you that…

  • Music Synthesizer – Beat Programmable Gate Array

    Check out this amazing FPGA project from Cornell University students. The music lovers created a synthesizer sequencer in their final year project at Cornell university, the project was inspired by other musical pads like Monome and Sembeo. They gave the name of their device is BPGA (Beat Programmable Gate Array); It has some improved features…

  • We have a B/LED Wing overstock! Take advantage and get one for $4.99!

    Hello everyone, today we are happy to announce a special offer on the Button/LED Wing 🙂 so if you are a Papilio user and you still don’t have this wing this is a great opportunity to get one for just $4.99 instead of the original price of $14.99 ! Moreover if you plan to buy…