Hardware Development

FTDI chips are commonly used for FPGA boards and microcontroller programmer boards. Apart from basic UART, advanced FTDI chips also support synchronous IO using the MPSSE mode. Unfortunately, examples for MPSSE are outdated, Windows-only or otherwise limited. This tutorial therefore explains the MPSSE basics and presents a simple SPI communication example for an FT232H controller using libftdi. ...

Tiny Tapeout has a local hardening guide to build your design locally. However, the guide does not list required system dependencies and is a bit difficult to follow. This guide aims to be more complete. ...

Verilator has traditionally been used for co-simulation, with testbenches written in C++. With recent versions, it can now also handle pure Verilog simulation. Here’s how. ...