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Image processing #001

Image processing [img_assist|nid=42|align=right|width=128] This is the first in a group of posts, during which I’m going to work through the development of an image processing system. I’m going to start at a …

FPGA Q&A area on stack exchange

For those who don’t know Stack Overflow, I recommend having a look round. Web Forums (Fora?) done right. A sensible and easy way of rating questions and answers and questioners and answerers. For the right …

Making things easy

Yet again, Altera make it easy (and cheap - $49!) for people to play with their tools: Altera’s USB development board

FPGAs and floating point

Altera’s newest DSP block is quite clearly designed to deal with double-precision floating-point numbers from the start. They are betting (quite rightly IMHO) that the future is going to move away from pure …

Make your own Drawdio without soldering

If you want to make your own Drawdio without doing any soldering, read on… This post will describe how to make a Drawdio like the one I made. What you’ll need Components: Screw terminal block (2 rows x 8 …