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From: Ankit on 5 Apr 2008 02:50
Hello everyone i have been working on FPGA and CPLD's for the past 6
months and i have gained sufficent expertise to do something
innovative or atleast challenging in my final year project.I have
designed ALU units,also implemented the Dice game and also made a
processor on a FPGA so my mentor has asked me to come up with an idea
using the Dragon FPGA board.Here is the link

http://www.fpga4fun.com/PCI.html

The idea should revolve around using the PCI bus for example PCI bus
master or PCI bus analyzer doing something useful,he suggested me that
i should think in terms of what is missing or incomplete on the
board.Waiting for your replies.


Regards
Ankit Anand
From: Frank Buss on 5 Apr 2008 03:17
Ankit wrote:

> http://www.fpga4fun.com/PCI.html
>
> The idea should revolve around using the PCI bus for example PCI bus
> master or PCI bus analyzer doing something useful,he suggested me that
> i should think in terms of what is missing or incomplete on the
> board.Waiting for your replies.

PCI is fast and FPGAs have many IOs. Maybe buy some RGB LEDs, think how to
build some drivers, which are controlled with PWM signals from the FPGA and
build the next Cubatron:

http://www.nw.com/nw/projects/cubatron/

The FPGA works as a FIFO for precise timing for controlling the LEDs. The
PCI bus would be idle most of the time, but you'll need more speed for a
high resolution version of a spinning globe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLygWkHo9nw

In this video you can see how it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZywmIYw4o

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Frank Buss, fb(a)frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de
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