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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.…

  • Stuff A Lot Of Brute Power On Your FPGA To Crack A MD5 Password

    In today´s article we present a project developed by students of the University of Illinois. This guy and his partner used the parallel power of the FPGA to create a hardware system which basically consisted of 16 MD5 cracking units-which were able to produce more than 700 million hashes per minute-, a keyboard control system…

  • Create A Particle Dynamics Simulator With Your FPGA

    Today´s article presents a very detailed project of a Cornell student who wanted to play with Pyro Sand Game. He did not want his laptop to overheat due to high power consumption, the fan to go crazy or the screen to freeze up once a lot of particles were on screen. To solve this he…

  • How To Implement The Old Oberon System On A Modern FPGA

    In today´s article we bring you an experiment carried out by Niklaus Wirth, a master of the Computer Science World. But this article goes beyond itself. It is much more than that because it is the introduction chapter for a thorough guide on how to implement the Oberon system, developed in the late 80´s on…

  • Build Your Own Vacuum Robot With Your FPGA!

    This is the first part of the series for building up your own robot, that is fully capable of swallowing up the dust of your room. The first thing you need to build is a fully functional robot that moves independently around your room and that can stop at every obstacle. Well, you have it.…

  • Use You FPGA To Bring The BBC Back To Life!

    BBC is the short name for the Acorn BBC Micro, which was very popular in the mid-to-late 80s. There were several versions of this computer but the one that has been revived in this project is the BBC B. The core of this device was the famous 6502 processor.  This article thoroughly defines each part…

  • How To Add A LCD To Your FPGA And Control What It Displays!

    This great tutorial brings you all the information you need to add a screen to your FPGA.  You will learn about how to choose the appropriate parts for this project, the schematics and as it couldn´t be otherwise, you will also get to know the theory. Mainly, this article explains the theory behind the control…

  • How Building a DPLCM To Learn About FPGAs Turned To Be A Possible Business

    First of all, yes, what is a DPLCM? At least I had to look this up. Now, I can tell you that DPLCM stands for Digital Audio Peak Level and Correlation Meter. At this point we have covered the most difficult part. This tutorial is so well explained, the author even tells you why he…