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created testbench for state machine / block ram tester
So tonight I fooled around with ISIM, which is Xilinx’s simulator. I was doing behavior simulation and wrote a small testbench for the block ram state machine that I wrote a few days ago.
Really neat stuff.
Xilinx’s ISE really makes it easy for you because it will create a testbench fixture of any module automatically. This [...]
finally got some memory working on the FPGA
So since I first picked up this Xilinx Spartan-3E starter kit evaluation board, I’ve been trying to get some memory working on the FPGA. The DDR is as elusive as beast as I can find. I’ve not yet given up, but I tried something today and got it working at 3am local time.
I [...]
About techtravels.org
This website mixes a few of my interests: travel, photography and technology.
I have two different photography related sections. The first section, Travel Snapshots, is a gallery collection of travel related pictures. Most were taken prior to my Great Awakening in the wonderful hobby of Photography. These pictures were designed to preserve the memory of our vacations and were taken with a Point and Shoot camera in Auto mode. They were taken with a Canon Digital Elph and a Fuji E900.
The second section, my Portfolio, contains photographs where I have paid attention to the details. These photographs weren't haphazard results from putting a camera into Auto, pointing it, and releasing the shutter. I'm still a beginning amateur. While I have the important basic concepts down solid, I'm constantly honing my skills, especially in the composition department. These were taken mostly with my Nikon D300.
I plan on adding a section on Photography Tips and cover a wide range of different topics. I've read quite a few books, and learned what to do, and what-not-to-do, and I'd like to put together short essays.
One of my other interests, technology, has manifested itself on this website as primarily my Amiga Floppy Project. This project involves building an external Commodore Amiga floppy drive controller that attaches to a PC via USB, and allows a standard PC floppy drive to read amiga formatted floppies, and create .ADF emulator images. It uses a Parallax microcontroller called the SX28.
In any event, welcome, and feel free to email me at 