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• Interested in Software-Defined Radio? We are!(3)
  

  Will Wadkins, Digilent's FPGA Product Manager, discusses how Digilent is beginning to enter the software-defined radio space with the introduction of the USRP B205mini-i.

• A Beginner's Guide to Pmod App Notes(1)
  

  Get going with Pmods and Arduino with this quick-start guide.

• Care and Feeding of an Engineering Notebook, Part One(1)
  

  A new series about using an engineering notebook.

• Care and Feeding of an Engineering Notebook, Part Two(1)
  

  The second part in the series about maintaining an engineering notebook.

• FPGA - Configurable Logic Block(1)
  

  Welcome to the first expanded explanation post in our series on the ‘Components of an FPGA’. This post will describe the architecture of a configurable logic block (CLB) and the functionality this component serves within a field programmable gate array (FPGA).

• FPGA for Beginners: Glossary and Setup(1)
  

  Take the first steps into getting started with FPGA.

• Good Idea Or Bad Idea - Dual Booting(1)
  

  Nate visits some of his duel booting mistakes in an effort to guide the beginning Linux user around his previous pitfalls!

• History of the FPGA(1)
  

  As you probably know, one of Digilent's major focuses is producing FPGA (field programmable gate array) boards and educating the public on FPGA design. One of the classes I was in last semester focused on FGPA design. This class is EE324 at WSU, which is taught by Digilent's own Clint Cole. He gave a background lecture on the History of FPGA chips. Not only was it an extremely interesting lecture, but it also helped me understand the huge leaps in logic design that have been made since the 1960s. This is the history that led to the development of FPGA chips. The chips are the parts that Xilinx makes that we use on our FPGA boards.

• How to Code a State Machine in Verilog(1)
  

  Now we know what a state machine is. But how do we code one?

• How to Plot the Frequency Response of a Circuit(1)
  

  Add an additional skill to your electronics arsenal.