Hackaday

No Frame Buffer For FPGA VGA Graphics

Usually, when you think of driving a VGA–in software or hardware–you think of using a frame buffer. The frame buffer is usually dual port RAM. One hardware or software process fills in the RAM and ...
Hackaday

FPGA Rescues Scope From The Dumpster

I’m always on the lookout for a quality addition to my lab that would respect my strict budget. Recently, I’ve found myself pushing the Hertz barrier with every other project I do and hence ...
EDN

Face Tracing + Perspective Projection on FPGA

The goal of this project was to track the motion of a human face and to display a projection of a cube on a VGA monitor that would change according to the motion of the users face. We wanted it to ...
Design-Reuse

PCI Express Design Considerations -- RapidChip Platform ASIC vs. FPGA Design Efficiency

This paper describes the implementation differences of an IP core between FPGA and RapidChip® Platform ASIC technologies. By mapping the same complex, high-speed PCI Express core onto these two ...
EDN

How to design FPGA-based advanced PCI Express endpoint solutions

Currently dominating the desktop PC motherboard and graphics markets, the PCI Express protocol is poised to supplant PCI and PCI-X interface as the dominant high-bandwidth interconnect for the server, ...