{"id":214,"date":"2011-11-14T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-11-15T07:32:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:32:05","slug":"spartan-board-not-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Spartan Board not Boring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-216\" title=\"spartan board\" src=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0143-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0143-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0143-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I took delivery of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digilentinc.com\/Products\/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,792&amp;Prod=S3EBOARD\">Spartan 3e<\/a> board today. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always wanted to get into FPGA programming. \u00a0I \u00a0managed to go through a tutorial and got a decoder implemented. \u00a0I thought there was a little more to this stuff, but then again my initial exposure to FPGAs was writing linux code for a PPC core on a virtex 5, and that was more involved.<\/p>\n<p>Next I tried programming a pacman board from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpgaarcade.com\">fpgaarcade<\/a> with the pong roms. \u00a0It worked first try.<\/p>\n<p>Awesomeness!<\/p>\n<p>The ISE webpack tools that I used are huge, a 6GB install. I&#8217;ll have to think of something fun to do with this now. Here is pong in action:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-215\" title=\"Pong on the spartan\" src=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0144-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0144-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0144-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took delivery of the Spartan 3e board today. \u00a0I&#8217;ve always wanted to get into FPGA programming. \u00a0I \u00a0managed to go through a tutorial and got a decoder implemented. \u00a0I thought there was a little more to this stuff, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/?p=214\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpga","tag-fpga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zethus.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}