Nexys 2 Spartan 3 FPGA Arrives

Posted on March 7th, 2009 by COMP-E

It took a week to get it from Washington state, but it’s finally here.  My gorgeous Nexys 2 board I ordered from Digilent.  It uses the Xilinx Spartan 3-e chip and has a lot of nice extra features that the one that Xilinx makes didn’t have.  Digilent’s website also has a ton of cool addons [...]

Digital Design Implementing 8085

Posted on March 7th, 2009 by COMP-E

All op codes are not represented / implemented in this design however adding them should be very straight forward. This digital design utilizes a bus in order to achieve high efficiency and throughput.  The design is scaled back a bit and uses less registers than the actual 8085.  This can be easily modified though.  Additional [...]

Another Day, Another COMP-E / Engineering Joke :)

Posted on January 27th, 2009 by COMP-E

– from engineering edu
Five Surgeons
Five surgeons were taking a coffee break and were discussing their work. The first said, “I think accountants are the easiest to operate on. You open them up and everything inside is numbered.” The second said, “I think librarians are the easiest to operate on. You open them up and everything [...]

Welcome To COMP-E.COM

Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by COMP-E

Welcome to COMP-E.COM, a website geared towards those with a computer engineering, computer science, or electrical engineering background. With a focus on low level programming languages like C, C++, Verilog, and VHDL, along with topic specifics like microcontrollers, robotics, and hardware design / digital system design; we hope the forum will become a treasure [...]