Archive for August, 2008

Aug 31 2008

First fun with the “V5OSDK aka ML505″ FPGA

Posted by: ben in FPGA, tags: ,

Today it was time to write some VHDL code for the new board. The result are some lines to drive the LCD (ks0066u chipset 4-Bit interface). It is quite easy to talk with such devices, they have only a 4 bit data bus, 1 RS (Register Select), 1 R/W (Read/Write) and 1 E (Read/Write Enable) Continue reading →

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Aug 29 2008

V5OSDK aka ML505 / xupv5-lx110t FPGA

Posted by: ben in FPGA, tags: , ,

Today the a new development board received. It has an Virtex5 FPGA soldered and a lot of I/O connections. It is sold by Digilent Inc. as “Virtex-5 OpenSPARC Evaluation Kit”. Digilent has soldered a Virtex5 110T on the board instead of a Virtex5 50T as Xilinx on the ML505. All other components on the board Continue reading →

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Aug 28 2008

Starting Blogging

Posted by: ben in small talk, tags:

Yes, finally I also have a Blog. Hopefully I will find the time to write some stuff. So far, cheers

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