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  • New Tutorial – PWM outputs on Papilio FPGA

    In this tutorial you will learn how to use the PWM outputs of your Papilio FPGA board. For this particular step-by-step article, we have connected a button LED Wing to Wing slot AL. Basically you will be able to write a sketch that uses a PWM on any pin. We have only used 6 pins…

  • SparkFun Lunch and Learn: FPGAs for Makers, with Steve Grace

    Steve Grace, a Xilinx Engineer, gives a nice presentation at SparkFun on FPGA’s. While this presentation is not geared for beginners it does an amazing job of introducing all of the tools and techniques available with FPGA’s once you get to the intermediate level. Steve also does a very nice job of showing how your…

  • Papilio Pro Spanish Review

    Pedro Hernandez is a cofounder of  Pcdemano.com a spanish website that makes reviews about the Arduino, raspberry pi, BananaPi and more.  He recently decided to add FPGA’s to that list and chose the Papilio Pro as an FPGA development board to start with. Today he posted his first review for an FPGA board and a nice introduction to FPGA’s for all the Spanish…

  • 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

  • New Ethernet Wing For Papilio – 50% Off One Day Only Sale!

    Hi there everyone! We are excited to finally have the brand-new Ethernet Wing in stock at the Gadget Factory store! We are offering this awesome new product at a special introductory price of $9.99 for the first day only.  That day is today!  I would say take advantage of the sale, because tomorrow the Ethernet…

  • 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…

  • First release of the Papilio Schematic Library – draw a custom processor!

    Hello everyone, we have some exciting news today, the first release of the Papilio Schematic Library is ready to go! Ever find that you need just one more serial port, or SPI master, or PWM? Wouldn’t it be nice to add any peripheral you could imagine to your microcontroller? Sigma-Delta audio DAC’s, Stepper Controller’s, Commodore…

  • HowTo: Papilio Loader GUI on Linux

    The Papilio Loader Java GUI now runs on Linux. See how to install and run for yourself, this tutorial is for Ubuntu Linux. Download the Linux tar file from Gadget Factory download section and extract to your directory of choice. Ensure that libftdi-dev and the Java SDK is installed. In ubuntu do the following command:…