Collaborate Disseminate
We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while now, and like [Michael] we had no idea that their oss-cad-suite installer sets up everything …read more Continue reading Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?
Tiny Tapout is an interesting project, leveraging the power of cloud computing and collaborative purchasing to make the mysterious art of IC design more accessible for hardware hackers. [Yeo Kheng …read more Continue reading Tiny Tapeout 4: A PWM clone of Covox Speech Thing
[Grug Huhler] has been working with the Tang Nano 9K FPGA board. They are inexpensive, and he noticed there is a 20K version, so he picked one up. Of course, …read more Continue reading What’s the Difference Between Tang 9K and 20K (It isn’t 11…)
At one point, the Motorola 6809 seemed like a great CPU. At the time it was a modern 8-bit CPU and was capable of hosting position-independent code and re-entrant code. …read more Continue reading The 6809 Lives On in an FPGA
We always can use more tools for FPGA debugging, and the Manta project by [Fischer Moseley] delivers without a shadow of a doubt. Manta lets you add a debug and …read more Continue reading Manta: An Open On-FPGA Debug Interface
When you think about hardware description languages, you probably think of Verilog or VHDL. There are others, of course, but those are the two elephants in the room. Do we …read more Continue reading Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language?
[Mike Engelhardt] is a name that should be very familiar to the hardcore electronics nerd. [Mike] is the developer responsible for LTSpice, which is quite likely the most widely used …read more Continue reading QSPICE Picks Up Where LTSpice Left Us
The Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a powerful tool that is becoming more common across all kinds of different projects. They are effectively programmable hardware devices, capable of creating specific …read more Continue reading A Cycle-Accurate Sega Genesis with FPGA
We’ve seen some pretty incredible hacks using the Raspberry Pi 2040. However, one of the most exciting bits of hardware onboard is the Programmable I/O (PIO). Not content with it …read more Continue reading Bringing The PIO To The FPGA
Custom semiconductor chips are generally big projects made by big companies with big budgets. Thanks to Tiny Tapeout, students, hobbyists, or anyone else can quickly get their designs onto an …read more Continue reading Tiny Tapeout 3: Get Your Own Chip Design to a Fab