Introduction In a previous blog post ValentF(x) gave an explanation of what FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are and how they are a very valuable resource when designing electronics systems. The article went on to describe the majo...
Abstract: This ’blog describes my first experiments using a ValentF(x) LOGI-Pi FPGA board. After a short overview of LOGI-Pi and its Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, we show how to download two examples. The first is a pre-tested LED demo fro...
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Abstract: This ’blog describes my first experiments using a ValentF(x) LOGI-Bone FPGA board. After a short overview of LOGI-Bone and its Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, we show how to download two examples. The first is a pre-tested LED demo...
Mike and Jonathan of ValentF(x) hope to create useful blog posts that serve the purpose of helping electronics generalists to better understand FPGA technology. We hope to create some elementary blogs which walk through basics and then move to ...
IntroductionIn the desire to search for an interesting project involving programmable logic, this one seemed attractive – it is a two-stage design and it is low cost and has fast results (less than an hour to build this current stage 1 if that is all...
So after so many weeks we have come to the end and I have got the whole project working. If you have been following then in Part One we came up with the idea of making a temperature display using a LED matrix (5x8). This would be driven by a FPGA and...
I have developed the following design as the framework for the bus interface of USB2 interfaced FPGA based instruments. This firmware in intended to aid the design of instrumentation using the Morph-IC-II module and other fpga systems interfaced...
So now that I have a working display I guess I had better get started on the SPI temperature sensor. The design process here is a little different as we are not just passing data or signals from one block to the next. What we need is a sub block that...
So over the last few months if you have been following my FPGA Design guide you will see that I have first blocked out the chucks of logic I needed, then last time I showed you the code used to get my first part of the temperature display working. Ho...
In Part 1 of my Design Guide I looked at the outline of a new project, a temperature meter, and the blocks I’d need to get started. This time I will look at the code used to display the digits on the display and examine a little of what is going on. ...
Last month I looked at three different FPGA dev kits. You will have seen that I have selected the XuLA FPGA board from XESS that uses a Xilinx chip at its core. This month I want to go though the initial design process I use when designing a FPGA pro...
So if you have been following my series of post on what a FPGA is and which is better VHDL or Verilog then you should by now be thinking about the next step - actually buying a development kit. In this post I will talk about the three kits I think yo...
This interview was put together to talk about the new ErP2015 changes that are effecting not only manufactures of fans but motors in general. Geoff Lockwood is the Technical Director at ebm-papst but also the Chairman of the EVIAs Fan Working Group.&...
Over the last few months I’ve been looking at a number of low cost entry level FPGA development boards. The XuLa from XESS is one of those and also one that comes well recommended by other engineers. So in this blog post I wil...
Here is a sample application that we have created using the CoreCommander board for mass storage on Altera FPGA. The video given below does not have voice. You can read the comments and view the mass storage implementation. players.br...
Hello to element14 and all you guys. I have finally got round to writing my first blog for this site and rather than posting a blog about anyone subject I have decided to introduce myself. I live in the UK and have been doing e...
Product counterfeiters are increasingly targeting chips and electronic components, with attacks on hardware modules becoming commonplace. Tailor-made security technology utilizes a component‘s individual material properties to generate a digital key...
The video will give you a closer look at the Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit, particularly two utilities that accelerate the design cycle. Watch this 10-minute video and: Learn about two easy-to-use, function-rich dev kit utilities, the Boar...
