Hackaday (unofficial) March 16, 2024 3:00am Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language? #fpga #hdl #systemverilog #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Do We Need A New Hardware Description Language? 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 need another one? [Veryl-…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 26, 2023 3:00am QSPICE Picks Up Where LTSpice Left Us #softwarehacks #toolhacks #analog #c #ltspice #mikeengelhardt #mixedmode #power #qorvo #simulation #spice #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 QSPICE Picks Up Where LTSpice Left Us [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 spice-compatib…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 4, 2023 7:00pm A Cycle-Accurate Sega Genesis with FPGA #retrocomputing #decapped #fpga #genesis #megadrive #recreation #sega #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Cycle-Accurate Sega Genesis With FPGA 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 creat…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 23, 2023 12:00am Bringing The PIO To The FPGA #fpga #pio #raspberrypipico #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bringing The PIO To The 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 just being a…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 5, 2023 10:00am Tiny Tapeout 3: Get Your Own Chip Design to a Fab #hardware #asic #chip #design #verilog #vhdl #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Tiny Tapeout 3: Get Your Own Chip Design To A Fab 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 actua…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 14, 2023 7:00am An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End #fpga #musicalhacks #ak4619n #audio #dsp #eurorack #pmod #synthesiser #vcvrack #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Open Hardware Eurorack Compatible Audio FPGA Front End [Sebastian Holzapfel] has designed an audio frontend (eurorack-pmod) for FPGA-based audio applications, which is designed to fit into a standard Eurorack enclosure. The project, released under CERN…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 6, 2023 5:00pm Create Your RTL Simulations With KiCAD #softwarehacks #icestudio #kicad #rtl #simulation #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Create Your RTL Simulations With KiCAD [Bob Alexander] is in the process of designing a homebrew discrete TTL CPU, and wanted a way to enter schematics for digital simulations via a Verilog RTL flow. Since KiCAD is pretty good at handli…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 31, 2022 1:00pm Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico! #fpga #raspberrypi #emulation #fpgaemulation #pipico #raspberrypipico #rp2040 #verilator #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico! Ever want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting an FPGA board. The FakePG…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 9, 2022 3:00pm Ztachip Accelerates Tensorflow and Image Workloads #artificialintelligence #computerhacks #accelerator #ai #riscv #scala #spinalhdl #tensorflow #verilog #vexriscv #vhdl #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Ztachip Accelerates Tensorflow And Image Workloads [Vuong Nguyen] clearly knows his way around artificial intelligence accelerator hardware, creating ztachip: an open source implementation of an accelerator platform for AI and traditional image pro…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 7, 2022 6:00pm Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds an HP-35 from the Patent Up #cons #retrocomputing #reverseengineering #2021hackadayremoticon #calculator #fpga #hewlettpackard #hp35 #retrocalculator #reverseengineer #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Remoticon 2021 // Rob Weinstein Builds An HP-35 From The Patent Up Fifty years ago, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35. It was quite the engineering feat, since equivalent machines of the day were bulky desktop affairs, …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 4, 2022 7:00pm Al Williams Tells All in the Logic Simulation Hack Chat #hackadaycolumns #asic #circuitsimulation #digitallogic #fpga #hackchat #hdl #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Al Williams Tells All In The Logic Simulation Hack Chat The list of requirements for hosting one of our weekly Hack Chats is pretty short: you’ve got to be knowledgeable, passionate, and above all else, willing to put those two quantities on displ…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 3, 2021 10:00am Homebrew 16 Bit Computer Reinvents All The Wheels #computerhacks #1mhz #16bitcpu #74xx #homebrewcomputer #homebrewcpu #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Homebrew 16 Bit Computer Reinvents All The Wheels Building your own computer has many possible paths. One can fabricate their own Z80 or Motorola 6502 computers and then run a period correct OS. Or a person could start from scratch as [James Stane…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 13, 2021 1:00pm Using VHDL To Generate Discrete Logic PCB Designs #fpga #softwarehacks #asic #verilog #vhdl #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Using VHDL To Generate Discrete Logic PCB Designs VHDL and Verilog are hardware description languages, used to describe and define logic circuits. They’re typically used to design ASICs and to program FPGAs, essentially using software to def…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 15, 2021 3:00am RISC-V in… Typescript? #fpga #riscv #typescript #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 RISC-V In… Typescript? We are accustomed to seeing RISC-V implementations in Verilog or VHDL, but [Low Level JavaScript] has one in TypeScript. Before you dismiss it as a mere emulator, know that the project relies on ga…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 29, 2021 3:00am Slice Your Next FPGA Design #fpga #slice #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Slice Your Next FPGA Design A recent trend has been to convert high-level constructs into FPGA code like Verilog or VHDL. Silice goes the other way: it converts very hardware-specific concepts to Verilog and aims to be a more…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 19, 2021 3:00am FIR Filters for Xilinx #fpga #digitalsignalprocessing #dsp #fir #firfilter #mac #verilog #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 FIR Filters For Xilinx Digital filters are always an interesting topic, and they are especially attractive with FPGAs. [Pabolo] has been working with them in a series of blog posts. The latest covers an 8th order FIR fil…