https://fotino.me/tags/nexys-3/ Recent content in Nexys 3 on fotino.me Hugo en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:41:38 +0000 https://fotino.me/tetris-in-hardware/ Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:41:38 +0000 https://fotino.me/tetris-in-hardware/ <p><em>Using the <a href="https://www.digilentinc.com/nexys3/">Nexys 3</a> board with <a href="http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/spartan-6.html">Spartan 6</a> FPGA to output Tetris to a VGA display.</em></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rfotino/verilog-tetris">Source Code</a> | <a href="https://fotino.me/static/pdf/tetris-report.pdf">Full Technical Report</a></p> <p>I&rsquo;m a computer science student at UCLA, and one of my most recent classes was a &ldquo;Digital Design Lab&rdquo; where we got to play around with programming FPGAs. For our final project we were allowed to choose what we wanted to create, and my partner and I decided to go with a clone of the popular video game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris">Tetris</a>.</p>