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The Missing Lecture Notes - Series 1, Part 6

2010-01-17T22:08:00.000-08:00

[Update 11th August 2011 - This blog as been continued at www.recontech.co.uk] The next part of my hardware design series "Interfacing the PSP TFT-LCD Module to FPGAs and Microcontrollers " is now available online. It turned out differently than expected this was mainly due to adding support for microcontrollers. An abstract of the "Part 6 - Towards Creating a Universal LQ043TDX02 Display Driver

LQ043T3DX02 Driver Board: Colour Bars Demo

2009-06-21T09:50:00.000-07:00

[Update 11th August 2011 - This blog as been continued at www.recontech.co.uk]I can finally control the display of colours on the LQ043T3DX02 TFT module as can be seen in the Figure on the left which shows the display of the colours Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta and White from left to right. The next thing to do is to complete part 6 of the MLN series before exercising the ROM on the

LQ043T3DX02 Driver Board Prototype - Assembled

2009-06-08T14:34:00.000-07:00

[Update 11th August 2011 - This blog as been continued at www.recontech.co.uk] I have finally assembled a board and after a few mods all of the test points are at the correct voltage levels. All that is left to do now is to finish writing the LQ043T3DX02 device drivers. Once that has been done and Part 6 has been written and published I will start looking a some practical applications for the

LQ043T3DX02 Driver Board Prototype

2009-05-27T11:07:00.000-07:00

[Update 11th August 2011 - This blog as been continued at www.recontech.co.uk] I have finally received the LQ043T3DX02 driver board prototype(s). I decided to try PCB CART a web based prototyping service (www.pcbcart.com) located in China and it seems that they have provided a stirling services. If you are following my hardware design series "The Missing Lecture Notes - Series 1 - Interfacing

The Missing Lecture Notes - Series 1, Part 5

2009-04-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

The next part of my hardware design series "Interfacing the PSP TFT-LCD Module to a FPGA" is now available online. I am glad that this part is done and dusted. Even though it is quite late and I have work tomorrow I am already planning Part 6 which should contain some VHDL test code.An abstract of the "Part 5 PCB Design: Schematics and Artwork" is provided below:In the first section of this part

The Missing Lecture Notes - Series 1, Part 4

2009-03-29T00:37:00.000-07:00

The next part of my hardware design series "Interfacing the PSP TFT-LCD Module to a FPGA" is now available online. It was quite a time consuming and challenging part to write too and I am relieved that it is finished. I can now continue laying out the prototype PCB design itself. I hope to publish the next part in the series "Part 5 - The PCB Schematics and Layout" in about 3-4 weeks time.An

The Cyclone III Starter Kit

2008-08-03T05:29:00.000-07:00

Its been well over a year since my last post on this website and that is because I have been extremely busy and extremely lazy!Anyway, for a while now I have had a Cyclone III starter kit from Altera Corp., and I want to do some work using it so I though that it would be a good time to restart this blog and document the work here as I go along.The chief selling point of this kit is that it has a

Spartan 3A Starter Kit

2007-03-10T11:52:00.000-08:00

My Spartan 3A starter kit arrived yesterday and today I finally got an opportunity to unpack it. For some reason I expected the FPGA to power up with a default configuration however, the "Done" (green) LED remained off after power-up indicating that the FPGA had not been configured. This was a bit disappointing. After scrummaging around for a while on the Xilinx website I finally found some