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Colin
O'Flynn is an electrical engineering student
at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He has been interested in electronics for years.
In November 2005, he launched his company NewAE
in an effort to reverse the flow of money that
he usually pours into his projects and never
sees again. You may contact him at coflynn@newae.com.
PROJECT
FILES
To
download the code, go to ftp://ftp.Circuitcellar.com/pub/Circuit_Cellar/2006/187.
RESOURCES
K.
Goldblatt, “The Low-Cost, Efficient Serial Configuration
of Spartan FPGAs,” Xilinx, Inc., XAPP098, November
1998, www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp098.pdf.
LUB
Sourceforge project, http://lubloader.sourceforge.net.
Xilinx,
Inc., “Configuration and Readback of the Spartan-II
and Spartan-IIE Families,” XAPP176, March 2002,
www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp176.pdf.
SOURCES
AT45DB041
DataFlash and ATmega88 microcontroller
Atmel Corp.
www.atmel.com
X1226
Real-time clock
Intersil Corp.
www.intersil.com
LoonBoard
video development system
NewAE
www.newae.com
XC2S200E
FPGA
Xilinx,
Inc.
www.xilinx.com
