The following articles were authored by marcelojo

FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part III

By on May 11, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA.

  Hello everybody!
 As promissed a century ago, in this post I’ll show how to assign pins to our FPGA hello world, aka Led blink, how to generate our bitstream and how to program our FPGA. So let’s do it! Continue reading FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part III

FPGA hello world – Led blink – Part II

By on May 11, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA.

Hello!
In this post I’ll show you how to simulate our hello world design.
In ISE, in Design tab, select View Simulation as in the image below

FPGA hello world – Led blink

By on January 16, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA, VHDL. | 1 Comment

Hello guys!
Let’s do our first design using the demo board.

I’ll explain step-by-step how to create a new project, develop our code and synthesize it using ISE 13.3 installed in the last post. Continue reading FPGA hello world – Led blink

Installing ISE 13.3 webpack in Ubuntu

By on January 7, 2012
This entry is filed under FPGA, tools.

Hello everybody,
Today I’ll show you how to install ISE 13.3 webpack. As I’m a linux user, I’ll install it in Ubuntu Oneiric. Continue reading Installing ISE 13.3 webpack in Ubuntu

Spartan 3E demo board

By on October 2, 2011
This entry is filed under FPGA, tools.

Hello people,
As I said, I’m studying FPGA/VHDL and for that I have a spartan 3E demo board from Digilent. It’s a very nice demo board and it has everything that it takes to program the FPGA (no need of special cable). Continue reading Spartan 3E demo board

Rigol DS1052E

By on September 26, 2011
This entry is filed under tools.

Hello everybody!

I would like to tell you a little about my new scope – Rigol DS1052E. I read about it at EEV blog and I decided to give it a try. I’m very well surprised because it’s a very nice scope and it costs about $350, what’s is a bargain! Continue reading Rigol DS1052E

Creating jffs2 image

By on June 18, 2011
This entry is filed under Embedded Linux.

 Hello people!   Last time I wrote that we had some problems in generating jffs2 file system image. So I read on the internet about a bug when using -v option in mkfs.jffs2. I tried to generate the jffs2 image by taping the command and I think that I got it. Continue reading Creating jffs2 image

Compiling uClinux with kernel linux-2.6.21

By on June 14, 2011
This entry is filed under Embedded Linux, LPC2468, toolchain. | 1 Comment

Hello everybody!

Today I’ll show you what I did to compile the kernel.. First of all I’m assuming that you
have already installed build-essentials and mtd-tools packages.
Now let’s begin the hard work! =D Continue reading Compiling uClinux with kernel linux-2.6.21

Toolchain for ARM

By on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Embedded Linux, LPC2468, toolchain.


Hi people,
I’m following some instructions from Embedded Artists to build my own toolchain, compile and upgrade board’s u-boot.  Continue reading Toolchain for ARM

Embedded artists LPC2468 demo board

By on June 10, 2011
This entry is filed under Embedded Linux, LPC2468.

Hi people,
I’m currently working on the LPC2468 board from Embedded Artists. This is an overview of the board and processor:

LPC2468
– Processor ARM7TDMI-S core with speed up to 72 MHz
– 512 KB internal flash
– 98 KB RAM
– 4xUART, 3xI2C, 2xCAN, 1xSPI, 2xSSP, 1xI2S
– Full-Speed USB 2.0 Device/Host/OTG
– 10/100 Ethernet MACBoard Continue reading Embedded artists LPC2468 demo board

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