FPGA
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New Wing: MIDI Audio Wing
For anyone who wants to explore FPGA synthesizers, make MIDI controlled instruments, or just play with audio in general this Wing is for you! Available now in the Gadget Factory store for just $14.99 We’ve been playing with audio for a couple months now and are finally ready to release this hardware and several exciting…
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FPGA Snake game uses no VHDL at all
Remeber the DE2 FPGA board we talked about in the last post that ECE 5760 students used to implement their HAND BREAKING BRICKS game, this time the same FPGA board is used for the implementation of the game SNAKE. It’s not a normal version of the game.But what is special with this version is that…
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FPGA Breakout Game controlled with hand motions!
ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a breakout game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS but this game is not controlled the way classic breakout games are, it’s controlled with hand motions!! The project is basically consisting of a CCD camera, a DE2 FPGA board and a VGA monitor…
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Hamster hacks mini helicopter control into FPGA
Hamster bought a cheap Infrared toy helicopter with the intention of hacking the protocol and he successfully built an FPGA interface for it. He started with Capturing the commands using a IR receiver module but the IR sensor he had didn’t give any useful signal so he decided to open the transmitter and inspect it.…
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MPX soft-core processor running on the Papilio One 250K
UltraEmbedded has managed to run a ‘MPX’ soft-core processor on a Papilio One 250K board: “‘MPX’ is a 32-bit soft-core pipelined RISC processor written in Verilog.The processor implements the majority of MIPS-I™ ISA excluding the formally patented unaligned load/store instructions & also the hw multiplier / divider (mult, multu, div, divu) instructions.” The missing instructions can…
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CRT vector graphics arcade game built from an FPGA board
Sprite_tm is a big FPGA fan and he was always looking for a nice project to polish his VHDL skills with. Luckily the company he’s working for decided to clean up storage and throw away some broken PCBs and that’s how he got some old FPGA hardware. “…To control all that, there was a XC2V1000;…
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PSP LCD on FPGA
This is a really nice project that we found on the TFT-LCD module LQ043T3DX02 Sharp, best known as the display used in the PlayStation Portable (PSP) up and running with an FPGA development board. It’s not just a simple tutorial on that screen but you will find every information you need to get this hardware…
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Bootstrapping SRAM from FLASH on the Papilio Plus
We all know how flexible an FPGA can be but it’s still limited by the amount of resources it has especially when it comes to running a big project that requires a large amounts of memory whether it’s ram, rom or both.For that reason it is handy to have external memory attached to the FPGA…