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...
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SX EOL
I hate when this happens. 🙂 The Parallax SX microcontroller line has reached production EOL. The owner of the SX design (www.ubicom.com) has given Parallax final notice that we are to place a lifetime buy of wafers. We...
bought a Saleae Logic. Another tool for my toolbox
I bought at Saleae Logic which is an inexpensive logic analyzer. See link here. It isn’t nearly as fast (only samples at 24mhz max), and it doesn’t have as advanced triggering capabilities, but it does do...
got build environment working again, fixed uart code
So awhile ago I bought a quad core machine which runs Vista 64. Once I had the new machine, I tried getting my build environment for the AFP working again. NetBeans, the java IDE I use, has 64-bit support but there...
sanding a 556 timer IC to expose the die
So tonight, just for the fun of it, I decided to sand, by hand, a 556 timer IC. I just bought an extremely inexpensive microscope and was very interested to see what pictures I could get from it. Unfortunately, for me...
FPGA eval board
One of these arrived today. Very cool. I’ve only done minor things with it so far — but I’m learning. I’ve got FPGAs by Example for Verilog coming within a couple days. Looks like a good book...
