Tag: FPGA

All the articles with the tag "FPGA".

• FPGA for Fun #1 (Part 1) - Driving the MAX 7219 LED Display Module

  26 Dec, 2017

  Michael Earls

  In this post, I cover the wiring, Finite State Machines, and LED segment encodings for connecting a MAX7219 LED Display Module to the Mojo FPGA using SPI.

• Armchair Engineering - Ignorance is bliss

  18 Nov, 2017

  Michael Earls

  I'm totally into my FPGA. Embedded Micro is supposed to be announcing a new FPGA based on the new Artix 7 FPGA chip that will allow me to run the new Vivado design suite from Xilinx. I'm currently using the very outdated ISE tool (it's like using Microsoft Front Page

• Pong on the Mojo Revisited

  27 May, 2017

  Michael Earls

  In my previous post , I briefly discussed the implementation of a pseudo-pong game on my Mojo FPGA developer board. I was able to implement the VHDL version that I linked to later in the post and it works much better. The biggest challenge I had with it was converting the

• Creating PONG on the Mojo FPGA

  26 May, 2017

  Michael Earls

  I recently found an old VGA monitor on the side of the road and it inspired me to see if I could get my Mojo FPGA board to output a VGA signal. I took the monitor apart and wired its VGA cable directly to my Mojo. I read up on