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Numato Opsis, FPGA-based video platform for NeTV like applications
From a post on our Adafruit forums, by Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell: Back when the NeTV was originally created I was inspired to start the HDMI2USB.tv project to create hardware to capture HDMI streams using...
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Adafruit Holiday Gift Guide 2016: Development Boards and Breakout Boards
Development boards and Breakout Boards – where would we be without them? Browse through this hand picked gift guide for some fun development and breakout board ideas! Development Boards The...
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Using FPGA’s for audio processing
jaeblog , the Just another electronics blog writes:FPGA’s are cool, Digital Signal Processing is cool and audio is a nice way to show it. To get a bit better at working with FPGA’s and see if I...
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DarkRISCV – An Open Source RISC-V Core for FPGAs
DarkRISCV: An open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night! GitHub user darklife writes:Developed in a magic night of 19 Aug, 2018 between 2am and 8am, the darkriscv is a very experimental...
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Ultra96 Temperature Monitor with #adafruitio and #ifttt
Adam Taylor is an engineer with a young son who has just turned one and the UK summer heat is blaring. He notes:This makes for a great summer however at night when my son is trying to sleep a warm room...
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A MicroPython Prompt on the TinyFPGA BX @TinyFPGA #MicroPython
William D. Jones posts on twitter that he has successfully gotten a MicroPython prompt on a TinyFPGA BX board.Support will be pushed soon, still need to prepare a few things. Also will come up with a...
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Designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL: deploy onto Digilent’s Arty S7 board
Domipheus Labs continues its series on designing a RISC-V CPU in VHDL for an FPGA.I wanted to get an off-the-shelf Spartan 7 FPGA board, essentially to bring up the FPGA side of an eventual move to my...
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Feather-compatible FPGAs @TmmMcci @MCCI #LoRaWAN #IoT @TinyFPGA...
These prototypes by Terrill Moore, CEO, MCCI look really cool – its an ICE40 Ultra Plus FPGA, with the RISC-V core running on it. If that were not enough, he even put some sensors on there! Looks like...
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NEW PRODUCT – TinyFPGA BX – ICE40 FPGA Development Board with USB
NEW PRODUCT – TinyFPGA BX – ICE40 FPGA Development Board with USBWanna dip your toes into the world of digital logic design – but a little intimidated of the complexity? You may find a friend in the...
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Philip Freidin, designer of the first soft CPU in an FPGA 1991...
Via a few Twitter posts, I learned that Philip Freidin designed the first soft CPU in an FPGA, back in 1991.Freidin tweets:FYI, I’m the (humble-brag) designer of the first soft CPU in an FPGA, 1991...
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FX68K: an open source 68000 cycle accurate FPGA core #VintageComputing #FPGA...
Via the Atari forums, ijor (Jorge Cwik) has released a Motorola 68000 cycle exact compatible FPGA core. At least in theory, it should be impossible to distinguish functionally from a real hardware 68K...
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First four core RISC-V based FPGA SoC runs Linux #RiscV #FPGA #Linux...
Microchip’s Microsemi unit unveiled a low power, real-time deterministic ‘PolarFire #SoC’ architecture for Linux edge devices. The chips combine its PolarFire #FPGA with 4 RISC-V CPU cores supplied by...
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Adafruit articles on vintage computing, send in YOUR ideas! And use hashtag...
Lately Adafruit has published a number of blog posts on vintage computing. What is vintage computing? Anything from the past related from how hardware and software came to be to modern uses for vintage...
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A CHIP-8 console on an FPGA #FPGA #Gaming #TinyFPGA
Paweł Marczewski (GitHub user pwmarcz) posts the code for a CHIP-8 console on an FPGA. Specifically, it is a CHIP-8 game console emulator working on FPGA chip (TinyFPGA BX).There was also some manual...
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A DEC PDP-1 implementation on an FPGA #VintageComputing
Via YouTube, Twitter, and GitHub, this is FPG-1, a hobby project doing a DEC PDP-1 computer implementation in FPGA. It’s made for the MiSTer retro gaming system. The video you are seeing is recorded...
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An FPGA based mobile phone connected via a Commodore 64? #LCA2019 #Commodore...
Paul Gardner-Stephen has built a very interesting device to present to the LINUX.CONF.AU this week for the talk “FPGA based mobile phone: Creating a truly open trustable mobile communications device“....
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Tomu board using valentyusb! @xobs @tomu_im a little bit closer to getting...
Wow great news for FPGA and TinyUSB fans, the first data transmission on an ICE40 chipset with valtentyUSB…ValentyUSB is an implementation of TinyUSB for FPGAs. Why is this exciting to us? Well,...
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Designing FPGA or SoC circuits with power constraints #FPGA @HacksterIO
Via Adam Taylor om Hackster.io – we all like to think we’re good at making circuits but rarely do we put in the extra work to figure out how to best power a project, especially in restrictive power or...
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Building a RISC-V PC – now a reality @risc_v @ABOpenLtd @Hackaday
Via Andrew Back at AB Open via Hackaday – While it’s clear that the most significant opportunities for RISC-V will be in democratising custom silicon for accelerating specific tasks and enabling new...
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An open Verilog implementation of the DisplayPort protocol for FPGAs #FPGA...
Michael Field writes on Twitter:I’ve uploaded my IP-free Verilog FPGA DisplayPort Implementation to a new Github repo. Feel free to take a look around, and try it on your board. My Verilog skills are...
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Wolf3D-style raycasting with an FPGA and Arduino #Graphics #FPGA #Arduino...
Dormando writes about a classical raycasting engine using embedded microcontrollers and FPGAs.The project uses a Adafruit Metro Mini (ATmega 328P) and a small Field Programmable Gate Array (a TinyFPGA...
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Making LED Earrings with an FPGA #FPGA #Wearables #Jewelry @ElectronutLabs
Via Electronut Labs comes a pair of beautiful hanging LED matrix earrings powered by an FPGA:I wanted to build a pair of earrings for my wife’s birthday. Since I am learning about FPGAs these days, I...
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A cobbled-together profiler for CircuitPython #CircuitPython @CircuitPython...
Sean Cross on xobs.io posts about getting CircuitPython working on the Fomu FPGA board! But there were some issues:There’s an issue with the speed of Fomu’s SPI flash: It’s currently incredibly slow,...
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Reverse Engineering the iColor Flex Protocol #LEDs #ReverseEngineering...
Glen Akins on the Photons, Electrons, and Dirt blog writes about reverse engineering a proprietary string of RGB addressable lights sold well before the current crop of addressable strips (such as...
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The ZedRipper: a 16-core, 83 MHz Z80 powerhouse portable #VintageComputing...
We’re all used to multicore PC type machines these days but imaging a multicore Z80 machine. Z80? Like 1980 Z80? Yes. Clocked up to 83 MHz. A Kaypro dream to be sure. Chris Fenton has built such a...
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An FPGA powered handheld game console: Gameslab #Gaming #FPGA @craig_jbishop
Craig J Bishop writes:If you went to Hackaday Supercon 2019, you might have seen someone wandering around with a badge that was way too heavy looking. That was me! And that badge was a Gameslab, my...
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A continuous 4K 400fps+ image capture pipeline #Video
Shane Colton posts about the challenges of capturing high resolution images very quickly: In the original Freight Train of Pixels post, I laid out three main technical challenges to building a...
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NEW PRODUCT – Fomu – ICE40 FPGA Development Board
NEW PRODUCT – Fomu – ICE40 FPGA Development BoardOnly 13mm long, Fomu really puts the micro in microprocessor. Fomu is a fully open-source, programmable FPGA device that sits inside a USB Type-A port....
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The new XFM2 FPGA Synthesizer Module #Synth #Music #FPGA #Midi
The XFM2 Synthesizer Module is a 64-voice, 2-part, 6-operator FM Synthesizer with built-in effects processor, built on an FPGA chip. The build is based on two pre-assembled development boards: the...
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Feather-compatible QuickLogic Corp FPGA @ZephyrIoT @QuickLogic_Corp #ew2020
Drew spotted this Feather-form Open Source Hardware board with this new QuickLogic Corp FPGA at Embedded World. It has a hard Cortex M4 microcontroller and runs Zephyr – Twitter & check out...
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Teardown of a Kodak ES 4.0 camera #Teardown #ReverseEngineering @new299
41J Blog posts about the teardown of a Kodak Es 4.0 camera.…the camera uses a KAI4000 image sensor. This is a 90s/00s era image sensor. The sensor effectively operates as 4 independent image sensors....
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Using the Adafruit RFM69 radio with CircuitPython on the Zinqberry...
Whitney Knitter posts on hackster.io about adapting Adafruit’s CircuitPython to use the RFM69HCW Radio on the Zynq-7000 series FPGAs.One of my most commonly used Raspberry Pi shields I discovered a few...
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The EVO M51: a SAMD51 microcontroller and FPGA in a Feather form factor...
The Evo M51 Module is a Feather-sized board featuring both a Microchip SAMD51 microcontroller and a MAX 10 FPGA. The board is designed to support CircuitPython and is also programmable with the Arduino...
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Designing a custom FPGA board #FPGA #OpenSource #EE
Designing a custom PCB and use of an ICE40 FPGA to replace a dev board setup in driving a 64×64 RGB LED matrix.Just another Electronics Blog writes:I came up with the following requirements for this...
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The Linux FPGA subsystem #Linux #FPGA
The FPGA subsystem supports reprogramming FPGAs dynamically under Linux. Some of the core intentions of the FPGA subsystems are: The FPGA subsystem is vendor agnostic. The FPGA subsystem separates...
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Historical PDP-11 microprocessors reverse engineered #FPGA #EE #VintageComputing
The CPU11 repository contains the results of historical PDP-11 microprocessors reverse engineering.Typically the results include: high-resolution photos of decapsulated crystals, both for top metal and...
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QuickFeather Low Power MCU Open Source Hardware Development Kit
The QuickFeather Low Power MCU Open Source Hardware Development Kit (HDK) is a small form factor system ideal for next generation low-power, Machine Learning (ML) capable, IoT devices. Unlike other...
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EYE on NPI – Alorium Evo M51 #EyeOnNPI #DigiKey #Adafruit @digikey @Adafruit...
This week’s EYE ON NPI is a super exciting new Feather board that isn’t from us! The Alorium Evo M51 is an FPGA-enhanced embedded module featuring the Microchip SAMD51 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M4...
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FPGA Softcore SoC shootout #FPGA
Just another electronics blog publishes a FPGA Softcore SoC shootout.I have a few requirements any CPU must meet: 1. There must be a GCC or LLVM compiler available 2. No vendor specific CPU, a CPU...
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If you love Made in NYC this Friday Snō Build from AloriumTech on YouTube is for you! Snō boards have been selling like crazy the last couple of months as more customers start integrating them into...
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A Zynq SoC in a Feather form factor #Feather #FeatherFriday @PcbArts
The Xilinx Zynq SoC combines energy efficiency and performance in the smallest possible space. When PCB Arts became aware of this chip, they started an open source project. This is an FPGA development...
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Using an FPGA for raytracing on an SNES cartridge #FPGA #SNES #Nintendo #Gaming
SuperRT is a project something akin to the Super FX chip used in titles such as Star Fox, where the SNES runs the game logic and hands off a scene description to a chip in the cartridge to generate the...
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Helping Out My Local Coffee Shop During COVID Using FPGAs
Great project and documentation from Whitney Knitter up on Hackster.io.In my last project post, I detailed how I set out to help my local coffee shop to adapt to the new way of digital, contactless...
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Squeezing FPGA Memory to make an Apple II disk controller #FPGA...
The Big Mess o’ Wires (BMOW) blog discusses developing an Apple II disk controller that’s based on the UDC disk controller.The original UDC card had 8K of ROM and 2K of RAM, so it needs 10K of combined...
View ArticleExplaining the Basics of FPGAs
Through the Big List of Women Makers on YouTube that I posted about yesterday, I found Micah Elizabeth Scott’s scanlime channel. In this video, she offers a very clear and straightforward explanation...
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IceStick FPGA Tutorial #FPGA #RISCV @BrunoLevy01
Bruno Levy has posted a tutorial showing you how to install FPGA development tools, synthesize a RISC-V core, compile and install programs and run them on a IceStick. This lets one experience FPGA...
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A Pixel Purse LED Cube Controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem
Tom at Electronics etc… posts about using the inexpensive pixel panels in the Pixel Purse to make an LED cube controlled by a Cisco 3G Modem. If you aren’t familiar with LED cubes, here is a post by...
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NEORV32: a customizable RISC-V SoC #RISCV #FPGA
The NEORV32 Processor is a customizable microcontroller-like system on chip (SoC) that is based on the RISC-V NEORV32 CPU. The project is intended as auxiliary processor in larger SoC designs or as...
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DMGPlus – replace the GameBoy heart with an FPGA and Raspberry Pi Zero #PiDay...
SpriteMods discusses changing out the heart of a Nintendo Game Boy to make the DMGPlus game machine:A while ago, with the Raspberry Pi still new, a fair amount of people decided to take one and stick...
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The 100 MHz 6502 microprocessor #FPGA #Emulation #VintageComputing
Jergen posts about a re-implementation of the classic 65C02 microprocessor, found in many classic computers, in an FPGA, in a pin-compatible format that lets you upgrade those old computers and games...
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