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• 13 Jun 2021

  

  Adventures in hardware, part 11 - digital circuit design in Deeds

  I like it when software is fun to use, and Deeds is fun! While playing around and doing the exercises from the the nand2Tetris course I’ve ended up discovering an awesome software for digital circuit …

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• 22 Nov 2020

  

  Adventures in hardware, part 9 - FPGA calculator

  A pocket calculator on FPGA One potato two potatoes Three potatoes, four! Five potatoes, six potatoes Seven potatoes, more! As a follow up to one of my first FPGA projects Adventures in hardware, part …

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• 04 Oct 2020

  

  My First Altera FPGA

  Over a month ago I bought an Altera Cyclone IV board from a local seller, it seems to be listed on Aliexpress as well. It’s marked as A-C4E6E10, and features: Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6E22C8 FPGA chip …

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• 01 Sep 2020

  

  Adventures in hardware, part 4 - LED expander

  Why more LEDs? During the process of developing a 4x4 keypad reader I realized I need more LEDs for diagnostic information. As my Elbert v2 has plenty of digital input/output pins, it should only be a …

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• 07 Aug 2020

  

  Adventures in hardware, part 3 - display and a calculator

  Let’s do a calculator Let’s make a very simplistic 3-bit calculator that will: add or subtract number A and B number A is entered by DIP switches 1,2,3 number B is entered by DIP switches 4,5,6 …

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• 02 Aug 2020

  

  Adventures in hardware, part 2 - even lower level

  I’ve went through the first part of From Nand to Tetris course where I learnt to build a simple 16-bit computer called Hack from the digital building blocks (NAND gates). The course used its specific …

  6 min read - hardware vhdl fpga