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  • Quick Guide: 4 Easy Steps To Play Snake on Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers. I am sure you are going to love today´s post: How to implement Snake Game on your FPGA. Maybe some of you are too young to remember this everlasting game that has been popular generation after generation on a wide variety of formats. And as it couldn´t be less, Snake Game deserves…

  • 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…

  • Pac-man Running On Papilio Arcade Using Linux

    Thanks to reader Sowbug, who sent us this nice tidbit about how he got Pac-Man running on his Papilio Arcade via Linux.  Sowbug says, “Just got the Papilio on Sunday and was going through converting the Windows-based .bat and tools for merging/loading the Pac-Man bitfile. The first time I ran the loader with the bitfile, it…

  • VHDL Communication With A PS/ 2 Keyboard

    Thanks to reader Hamster, who submitted this peachy Wiki page!  Hamster has written some VHDL code for communicating with a PS/ 2 keyboard that can be found on the wiki!  Useful stuff: “It has lots of features: It does full start bit, stopbit and parity check … deglitches the signals, by requiring a state change of longer than…