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Playing with the Cyclone V SoC system – DE0-Nano-SoC Kit/Atlas-SoC

Posted on August 7, 2016 by digibird1 — 3 Comments

Recently I bought the DE0-Nano-SoC Kit/Atlas-SoC development board from Terasic which contains a Cyclone V SoC from Altera. The board is a good starting point to get involved in embedded system development with SoCs. The Cyclone V SoC is a…

Tagged with: Altera, ARM, C++, Cyclone V, DE0, Electronics, FPGA, GPIO, hardware, linux, Low Level, Micro controler, micro processor, microprocessor programming, programming, QSys, SoC, VHDL
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Interpolation implementation in VHDL

Posted on September 5, 2015 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This is a follow up on the previews article on the low and high pass filter designer. An algorithm is developed in order to perform interpolation. The FIR low pass filter from the last post is used in the interpolation…

Tagged with: ADC, DAC, DE0, Electronics, FPGA, GNU Radio, HAM Radio, interpolation, SDR, Signal Processing, Software Defined Radio, VHDL
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Low and High pass filter designer for implementation in VHDL

Posted on July 25, 2015 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This post is about digital low and high pass FIR filter design in VHDL. Implementing high/low pass filter in the digital domain has a lot of benefits compared to implementations in the analog domain. The VHDL code for an implementation…

Breakout board for the DAC900E a 165 MSPS @ 10 Bit DAC

Posted on June 27, 2015 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This breakout board helps me to interface my FPGA with the DAC900E from Texas Instruments. The DAC has 165 MSPS and 10 bits which is quite some speed. The combination FPGA and DAC opens up for experiments with digital signal…

Tagged with: DAC, DAC900E, DDS, DE0, Eagle, Electronics, FPGA, GNU Radio, GPIO, HAM Radio, hardware, modulation, oscilloscope, PCB, PCB design, SDR, Signal Processing, Software Defined Radio, Texas Instruments, VHDL
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Design of a FPGA PCB including USB2.0 interface and two 80 MHz ADCs

Posted on April 1, 2015 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This is my most advanced homemade PCB design until now. The PCB contains a EP3C5E144C8N Cyclone III FPGA from ALTERA, two 8 bit ADCs AD9057 from Analog Devices @ 80 MHz, a FTDI USB2.0 controller and many other things. The…

FTDI FT232H USB 2.0 FPGA extension for the Altera DE0

Posted on December 30, 2014 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This is a PCB design using the USB 2.0 IC from FTDI, FT232H – Hi-Speed Single Channel USB UART/FIFO IC, to connect it to the GPIO port of the Altera DE0 development board. The design should also work with other…

Tagged with: Altera, DE0, FPGA, FT232H, FTDI, GPIO, Hi-Speed USB, Interface, PCB design, USB 2.0
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Build your own Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Posted on October 9, 2014 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

This project describes how to build you own Software Defined Radio (receiver part). Starting from an antenna, amplifiers, mixer, filter, ADC, FPGA a FM radio signal is received and demodulated in software. All the blocks for amplification, mixing, filtering and…

Tagged with: ADC, FPGA, FT232H, FTDI, GNU Radio, HAM Radio, Hi-Speed USB, libftdi, scope, SDR, Signal Processing, Software Defined Radio, Source Block, USB
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A GNU Radio Source Block for the FT232H USB 2.0 controller

Posted on September 28, 2014 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

Here comes the documentation on how to write a source block for GNU Radio interfacing the FTDI FT232H USB 2.0 controller. This is particular interesting when one is willing to build an own Software Defined Radio (SDR) using an FPGA…

Tagged with: ADC, FPGA, FT232H, FTDI, GNU Radio, HAM Radio, Hi-Speed USB, libftdi, scope, SDR, Signal Processing, Software Defined Radio, Source Block, USB
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ADC readout and USB2.0 data transfer with an FPGA

Posted on August 7, 2014 by digibird1 — Leave a comment

Recently I bought the Altera DE0 Development and Education FPGA board from Terasic. This is a project giving the development board a fast USB2.0 interface. As an USB 2.0 controller the FT232H Single Channel Hi-Speed USB to Multipurpose UART/FIFO IC…

Tagged with: AD9057, ADC, Cyclone III, DE0, FPGA, FT232H, Hi-Speed USB, Interface, oscilloscope, PCB, SDR, Software Defined Radio, State Machine, USB 2.0, VHDL
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