Good news everyone, the circuit is finished 😀 ! Well, not so fast! Now everything is connected, but there are some last minute modifications to the circuit that were introduced just now. I will work on those first thing next week, and hopefully, I will start with the PCB layout. Read more…
This week is pretty challenging, I was assigned on task of putting a CPU into web application. The first thing to be done is to analyze the code of the CPU, it was written in pure JavaScript. The Best Way to Learn JavaScript I found out that the previous learning Read more…
Progressing from where I stopped last week, this week I had to finish everything up and make sure that everything works as it’s supposed to. Before I go in details and describe what I have done, I have to clear some stuff that were left from last week up regarding Read more…
I was interested to find out how much storage is needed to store the bitstream of a minimal design for a Spartan6 FPGA. The minimal design chosen is just a straight-forward 8-bit binary counter. The results are: LX25 Raw/Compressed: 801556/233934 LX16 Raw/Compressed: 464290/134942 LX9 Raw/Compressed: 340697/118773 The sizes stayed the Read more…