So I was having trouble getting the LCD working initially, so I ended up probing a working HDMI to LCD converter board sold by adafruit. You see, this board was driving my LCD just fine, but my FPGA couldn’t do...
Archive - February 2016
J68 boots VUBUG monitor on the BEMICRO MAX 10 FPGA board
Here’s an image showing a ROM monitor VUBUG running on the J68 softcore, which is in turn running on a BEMICRO Max 10 FPGA board.
VUBUG will be used until we can get our own (unwritten, so far) custom code booting!
Working on the User Flash Memory
So the Altera Max 10 FPGA we’re using has 256kbits of User Flash Memory. This is non-volatile memory that is built into the actual FPGA itself. This means you don’t need any external memory to get the FPGA...
Launch of HOPE Badge Computer project
This is the first post of many in this category. We have a project page giving the general goals of the project, but most of the hands-on action will happen here in the blog posts. For the latest status, reading these...