In this article we will be taking a look at generating pseudo-random numbers using an LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) and look at how one can be used as part of a larger application. 🗒️This is part 7 of our on-going series on the Tang Nano 9K. The full series can be viewed here. The LFSR

In this article we will be taking a look at the onboard external flash that comes on the Tang Nano9K. The onboard flash provides a whopping 4MB of storage which is both useful for applications where you need a lot of data, or even in applications where you simply want to store persistent data which

In this article we will go through different methods of converting data for display and we will be combining all the modules we created up until now in-order to wrap up our OLED mini project. The Goal We will be building a project that splits the screen into 4 rows like in the previous article, b

In the previous article (here) we developed a screen driver core which allows us to render pixels onto an OLED screen. In this article we will be building a text engine on top of our pixel driver to give us an easy abstraction for rendering text to pixels. Drawing Text In-order to draw text we ne

This is part 3 in our Tang Nano 9K series. In this article we will be starting a mini-project creating an OLED text engine core. This series will go through the entire process from concept to implementation to demonstrate not just the code but also the design process and considerations taken when c

This is the second article in our series on the Tang Nano 9K, the first section on getting your development environment setup can be found here. When programming FPGAs or really any embedded system you usually have a lot less visibility into whats going on, in comparison to programming for computer

In this article we will be going over how to get started developing for the Tang Nano FPGA using a fully open source toolchain. We will start with an overview of FPGAs and the toolchain required to develop them, we will then go through setting up your development environment and finish off with a si