Icestudio – Open Source Graphical FPGA Programming
https://www.electronics-lab.com/icestudio-open-source-graphical-fpga-programming/
Jesús Arroyo has published Icestudio, a new graphical tool that lets you generate Verilog code using block diagrams and run it on the Lattice Semi iCEstick development board. Using the drag and drop interface you can connect IOs, logic gates, dividers, and other elements. Once the block diagram is ready, a single button press downloads […]
Nandland Go Board – Your FPGA Playground
https://www.electronics-lab.com/nandland-go-board-your-fpga-playground/
There’s a new FPGA development board on Kickstarter. It’s called the Nandland Go Board, and it aims to be an inexpensive, easy-to-use FPGA development board to learn about how FPGAs work and what they are capable of. This board is unique because it provides a lot of options for projects built directly into the board. […]
iCE40 Ultra Wearable Development Platform
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ice40-ultra-wearable-development-platform/
Lattice Semiconductor has introduced their iCE40 Ultra Wearable Development Platform that supports multiple wearable applications. Portable and easy to use development platform: iCE40 Ultra Wearable Development Platform features iCE40 Ultra FPGA and MachXO2 with sensors and 1.54” LCD display in a compact watch form factor for designers to implement and develop always-on functions for wearable […]
Mango: A Compact Size FPGA Research Platform
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mango-a-compact-size-fpga-research-platform/
An arduino-compatible FPGA platform that can be used for a wide range of applications. The Mango is a compact field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) platform that can be used for a wide range of projects, such as signal processing, mobile computing and robotics. FPGA Mango board comes with a soft-core Nios II processor running on an Altera Cyclone […]
XLR8: Arduino-compatible FPGA-based Application Accelerator
https://www.electronics-lab.com/xlr8-arduino-compatible-fpga-based-application-accelerator/
XLR8 has both an ATmega328 clone and custom accelerator blocks on an FPGA and uses the standard Arduino IDE for programming. XLR8 is a drop-in replacement for an Arduino Uno, but with a twist. It is an Arduino-compatible board that uses a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the main processing chip. The FPGA provides a […]
Getting Started with Arty
https://www.electronics-lab.com/getting-started-with-arty/
by kaitlyn1franz @ instructables.com: Digilent recently released a new FPGA development board. The Arty board. The Arty is designed to be used exclusively with Xilinx Vivado, and designed specifically for use with microblaze. This tutorial covers how to use the out of he box design that ships loaded into Arty’s Quad-SPI Flash, with I/O and UART. […]
Water Cooled Silicon Chips are reality
https://www.electronics-lab.com/water-cooled-silicon-chips-are-reality/
Georgia Institute of Technology managed to cool FPGA trasistors using water, they announced: Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid cooling right where it’s needed the most – a few hundred microns away from where the transistors are operating. […]
WireFrame FPGA Board , Breadboardable Xilinx XC3S250E Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/wireframe-fpga-board-breadboardable-xilinx-xc3s250e-board/
circuitvalley.com has build a small FPGA board based on Xilinx XC3S250E : I have built a little FPGA board Xilinx xc3s250e called WireFrame. the board is only 500mm x 25 mm in size and it is possible to put it breadboard. board has 32MByte SDRAM, 4MByte serial Flash for storage. total 3 2A max each […]
Logic PCB Business Card
https://www.electronics-lab.com/logic-pcb-business-card/
Floyd-Jones designed his own business card using logic circuitry. He writes: The card implements a digital finite-state machine which displays the next character of my last name on a 7-segment display each time the button is pressed. Luckily all 11 characters in my name can be reasonably shown, essentially spelling out FLoyd-JonES. I simulated the […]
Tutorial on the Design & Implementation of an FPGA RGB LED Matrix Driver
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tutorial-on-the-design-implementation-of-an-fpga-rgb-led-matrix-driver/
In this episode Shahriar and Timo demonstrate the design methodology of an FPGA based 32×32 RGB LED matrix driver. Timo has kindly devoted some of his time to describe the block diagram and the thought process which goes into designing this type of FPGA display driver. The various components of the overall system (PLL, UART, […]