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  • Alvie Is The Newest Blogger On All Programmable Planet!

    We wanted to congratulate our longtime friend, colleague, and collaborator Alvaro Lopez on being selected as the newest contributor on All Programmable Planet’s list of heavy hitters. Alvie is the man responsible for the ZPUino SoC softcore system, and much more. So, congrats Alvie! Here’s his introduction from APP: Álvaro Lopes is a Senior Software…

  • Tutorial: Adding Two Extra Serial Ports To ZPUino

    Hey there folks! There have been several questions on the forums recently about how to add some additional serial ports on the ZPUino, so Jack has put up a great tutorial over on the ZPUino documentation regarding this subject. I popped the video in above so you can take a look-see! Here are your resources:…

  • Introducing ZAP IDE – ZPUino And AVR8 Together At Last!

    Howdy, hacker types!  What’s new, you ask?  Well, I’m happy to say there’s a cool little development coming your way called ZAP IDE. What’s ZAP IDE you ask? Why, it’s the first version of the ZAP (ZPUino Arduino Papilio) Soft Processor IDE, that’s what! It’s basically ZPUino and AVR8, all in one. How about more…

  • Sneak Peek – Build Arduino-Compatible SOCs With New Schematic Editor

    Today we wanted to give you a sneak peek at a new SOC (System On Chip) schematic editor for Papilio that we are working on.  The editor is a drag and drop system that makes it easy (even for beginners) to draw schematics even without necessarily having VHDL experience.  Jack says, What we need is…

  • Watch My Pins! Serial Pro Compatible With Papilio, ZPUino

    We’ve got a quick resource list for Alvie’s Serial Pro (SerPro) here for you today.  Serial Pro is compatible with Papilio and ZPUino, and is RPC-like, fast, small and useful for when you don’t want your data to be lost or corrupted. Alvie says, This library (actually a set of C++ templates) was developed for my arduino…

  • ZPUino Wishbone Simulator

    Want to simulate your Wishbone peripherals without the overhead of synthesizing or simulating the full ZPUino Soft Processor? We’ve been working on porting a stepper control core to work as a wishbone peripheral on the ZPUino. To help us out with this process Alvie put together a really cool wishbone testbench that lets us simulate…

  • ZPUino Linux Framebuffer

    Ah, the start of another week.  Let’s see what’s in the news around here. Well, we’re getting word from Alvie over at his ZPUino page that we are getting closer to a Linux implementation of ZPUino.  The picture above is an example of a video framebuffer running on physical hardware.  ZPUino also now has video output…

  • Linux on the Papilio Pro?

    Linux on the Papilio Pro? Alvaro Lopes has Linux running on the ZPUino simulator and expects it to run on PPro soon! Watch the video of Linux running on the ZPUino simulator, everything including the SD card is simulated and helped him speed up the porting process. Now that everything is working in the simulator…