FPGA Projects

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Projects I've been playing with that use Field Programmable Gate Arrays, and their status

Project	Description	Status
Audio filter	Simulating a passive analogue audio filter	Planning
Dualhead MCB Frame Buffer	Adding a DVI-D output to the MCB Frame Buffer	Completed
MCB Frame Buffer	Creating a 720p frame buffer in the Pipistrello's LPDDR memory	Completed
USB TTL RS232	Using the Papilio as a TTL RS232 adapter	Completed
Spartan 6 1080p	Generating 1080p on a Spartan 6 LX	Completed
High Speed Link	High speed transfer between two FPGAs	Completed
RS232_dumper	Capture then dump data to the RS232 port	Completed
Zedboard_HDMI	Driving the Zedboard's HDMI interface	In Development
Zedboard_OV7670	Attaching a low cost camera to the Zedboard	Completed
Async_VGA	A VGA Controller that works with bursts of data (e.g. from SDRAM)	Completed
FreqSwitch	CHanging a DCM_CLKGEN's output "on the fly" to generate different frequencies	Completed
FM_SOS	Send SOS with a simple FM transmitter	Completed
OV7670_camera	Video capture from a cheap camera module	Completed
Digilent EPP Performance	Performance difference in the EPP port speed on digilent boards	Completed
OSERDES2 clocking	Setting up the clocking infrastructure for high speed serial output	Untested
frequency_counter	GPS referenced frequency counter	Completed
hidef_snow	Generate static in 1080p	Completed
config_flash	Storing arbitrary data in the configuration flash	Completed
async_reset	Testing async reset reliability	Completed
meta_test	Testing for metastability	Completed
if vs case	Testing different implementations	Completed
ray_cast	A "ray casting" 3D maze walk through	In Progress
dx_display	Driving a Deal Extreme TM1638 7 Seg Display	Completed
Synth	A simple all-digital Synth, in bite sized parts	Partially complete
Crystal Castles	Reimplementing the old arcade machine on an FPGA	In progress
CheapScope	A simple fabric embedded logic analyser, with and RS232 interface	Completed
dvid_test	Driving a DVI-D interface from a Spartan 6 FPGA	Completed
HDlife	Implementing Conway's Game of Life at full HD	Completed
FPGAheli	Controlling an Infrared Helicopter	Completed
shortwave	A very quick and dirty shortwave transmitter	Completed
AVR8 core	An AVR103 nearly compatible soft core originally from OpenCores	Running, but no documentation yet.
10BaseT-TX	Sending out Ethernet packets directly from the FPGA	Completed
SPDIF_Input	Capturing and converting digital audio data from DVD players	Completed
SPDIF_out	Generating digital audio data output	Completed
SPDIF_Volume	A simple digital volume control for a S/PDIF signal - a very simple DSP	Completed
SPDIF_Thru	A passthrough for S/PDIF singal - a base for DSP projects	Completed
VGA Display	Generating the timings for 1440x900 VGA output	Completed
WavePlay	Playing 8bit stereo audio samples from Block RAM	Completed
Mandelbrot	Yet another FPGA Mandelbrot viewer	Completed
DSPfract	Yet another FPGA Mandelbrot viewer - this time using Spartan 6 DSP48A bocks	Completed
Radix2div	Radix 2 division in VHDL	Completed
Radix4div	Radix 4 division in VHDL	Abandoned
SDRAM Memory Controller	Memory controller for the SDRAM chip on the Terasic DE0-nano	Design complete, implementation mostly complete. Testing to start.
uClinux	Bringing up uClinux on a Terasic DE0-nano board	Completed
MAF6502	A FPGA implementation of the classic MOS6502 processor	On hold
Papilio Plus/Pacman	Building the Pacman implementation from http://fpgaarcade.com on the Spartan 6 hardware	Completed
Papilio Plus/Fading counter	A softly fading binary counter	Completed
Papilio Plus/PS2 Keyboard	Using the PS/2 keyboard interface	Completed
Papilio Plus/SRAM test 2	writes and verifies test patterns in the SRAM on the Papilio Plus @ 100MHz	Completed
CUGA-1	A CPU Using Gate Arrays	On hold

There is also a whole lot of mini projects on the Papilio Plus page, for testing interfaces.