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  • Build Your Own SuperH CPU with FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today’s post is a rather special one since it throws open doors to a 32 bit CPU that you can quite simply build with a Spartan 6 FPGA board. Hitachi’s SuperH CPU patents have passed the 25 year mark, and this means that the technology can be reproduced at much lower costs…

  • Groove to Your 8 Step Synthesizer Rhythms with FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Today’s project will be a special one that will pique the interest of FPGA lovers and music makers alike! The project is about how to build an 8 step synthesizer with an FPGA board! The 8 step Synthesizer is a set of 8 switches with a time line that flows from left…

  • Get Ready to Bop It! With FPGA

    Hello FPGA enthusiasts! Today we have a close enough version of the popular Bop It! Game. For those unfamiliar with what a Bop It! Game is, I will tell you that it is practically a quick reflex based game that has a set of voice commands that give you instructions to perform tasks with the…

  • Control a Servo Motor with Your FPGA

    Hello FPGA lovers! Great stuff here today. I have come across an article that gives you great details about how to control a RC Servo with a FPGA. There many versions for RC servos but basically all of them use a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal to control their position. Servos should receive 5 V…

  • 9 Steps Away Of Playing Pong With Your FPGA!

    Hello all FPGA lovers. Today we have got a fantastic step-by-step article that will teach you how to implement the Pong Game in your FPGA in 9 simple steps, so you can play with it as if you were using a computer. This project is a purely VHDL coding one, and guess what? All the…

  • Use Your FPGA To Build Your Own Music Box

    Today´s article presents an university project in which the author chose to increase his knowledge about FPGA´s by creating a Music Box. As with any other university work, this study is very well organized and there are chapters for literature review, scope of project and so forth. Luckily for you, I will ease you the…

  • 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…

  • How To Control A LCD TFT Using Your FPGA (Or Someone Else´s)?

    Not long ago, we published some articles about controlling different kinds of displays, using your FPGA. On a VGA screen, on a small LCD screen, on a PSP LCD or even for the old, but nasty-analog-signaled NTSC system. And today, we share with you another great tutorial on how to control a LCD TFT, that…