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  • ZX Spectrum ULA Chip Implementation On OBLS

    Above: OpenBench Logic Sniffer running the ZX Spectrum ULA chip clone. As a follow-up to Friday’s article on the ZX Spectrum clone running on the Pipistrello, I thought it would be good to share a little more with you on the implementation of the Sinclair ULA chip. The chip was originally included in the ZX…

  • Rock Out With This FPGA MIDI Drumkit Project

    LUMS SSE Electrical Engineering undergrads Haris Usmani and Bilal Mahmood have created a fully functional, low-latency MIDI drumkit project using an FPGA board for their Digital Systems Design class.  The kit is comprised of four piezo sensors with ADCs, one Digilent Nexys-2 Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA, Serial to MIDI software and a laptop with the EZDrummer…

  • FPGA Light Timers Help Keep The Homestead Safe

    When embedded systems designer Robin Findley was living in the ‘hood, he knew he would have to be a step ahead of the bad guys when he took his family on vacation. When you live in a neighborhood where a SWAT team raid two doors down is not unheard of, you’ve gotta take some precautions.…