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Xilinx Spartan-6

Spartan®-6 devices offer industry-leading connectivity features such as high logic-to-pin ratios, small form-factor packaging, MicroBlaze™ soft processor, and a diverse number of supported I/O protocols. Ideally suited for a range of advanced bridging applications found in consumer, automotive infotainment, and industrial automation.

Digital clock (time watch) using FPGA

“Digital clock (time) on 4 single 7 segment common anode display implemented hardware on Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. Digital clock (time watch) on 4 single 7 segment common anode display implemented hardware on Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. Use.ucf (implementation …

Compiling a CPU, in a cheap FPGA board

“I am developing a strange habit - I keep “twisting” products from failed companies… into nice toys. For science! :-) After completing my AtomicPI saga, something else caught my attention - a very cheap FPGA board, that came out of yet another failed …

XFM Synthesizer

“XFM is a polyphonic, 32-voice, 6-operator FM synthesizer stereo module that you can build yourself. Essentially, the module receives MIDI messages from a controller/sequencer, produces audio and delivers it via digital (SPDIF) and analog outputs. The sound range XFM …

An Open Source Frequency Meter and clock generator

“If you’re looking for a tool for measuring frequency that is not the classic multimeter and, in the various drawers of your lab, between a forgotten board and various devices, you can’t find one, worry not: you don …

Getting Started with FPGAs: Lookup Tables and Flip-Flops

“Just what makes an FPGA so different from a microcontroller and yet so versatile? This article continues the exploration of FPGAs, focusing on the role of flip-flops and lookup tables (LUTs) in logic blocks. The fundamental building blocks inside of …

A FPGA controlled RGB LED MATRIX for Incredible Effects – the Hardware

“In this post you will find the description of a graphic display that uses a modular solution based on dot matrix blocks (in which each dot is a RGB LED), that are driven – via a specific bus – by a very …

Designing a CPU in VHDL

“VHDL, really, is simple. Its the safer choice when it comes to HDL going by what Ive read. Verilog is the C99 of the HDL world, and you can get in quite a mess as a beginner if you dont …

FPGA Robotics Vision for anyone

“Are you like me interested in technology and always wanted to use one of those heavy chips called FPGA’s? Are you interested in vision and robotics? My goal was to bring FPGA vision to the people, accessible to everyone …