Make: FPGAs: Turning Software into Hardware with Eight Fun and Easy DIY Projects

What if you could use software to design hardware? Not just any hardware—imagine specifying the behavior of a complex parallel computer, sending it to a chip, and having it run on that chip—all without any manufacturing? With Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), you can design such a machine with your mouse and keyboard. When you deploy it to the FPGA, it immediately takes on the behavior that you defined. Want to create something that behaves like a display driver integrated circuit? Ho...