Aessent blog archive


Welcome to our blog. Keep in touch with useful articles about using our range of FPGA mini modules, including the aes220.

Nothing like the smell of baking in the morning

Nothing like the smell of baking in the morning...Although if it could have gone up in flames it probably would have...

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February 2014

PCB bonanza!

There's been a PCB bonanza through the post today at Aessent, with a raft of new daughter boards to the aes220 arriving by courier from Beta Layout in Ireland, including new voltage translator, freedom inertial sensor board, Pmod and Raspberry Pi GPIO modules.

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February 2014

Manual placement of BUFGMUX instances in a Spartan3AN chip

Something to be aware of while playing with manual placement of BUFGMUX in a Spartan 3AN chip.

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February 2014

Stacking up aes220 High-Speed USB boards

A short video showing how easy it is to stack up two or more aes220 High-Speed USB FPGA boards

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November 2013

aes220 High-Speed USB FPGA mini-module ports description

As you may already know the aes220 is a high-speed USB FPGA module for rapid prototyping with an emphasise on simplicity. It is ideal for learning and at the same time powerful and compact enough to be used on its own or integrated among other applications.

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October 2013

Communicating with the aes220 High-Speed FPGA Mini-Module over the USB port

This write-up demonstrates the communication process between the PC and the aes220 module over the USB port. 

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May 2013

Running my first example

Programming the aes220 High-Speed USB FPGA module using Xinlinx ISE WebPACK and the aes220 programmer is very easy.

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May 2013