Posts Tagged ‘fpga’
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Bitcoin Adventures
I’ve been following the Bitcoin ecosystem for a few years now, and seeing as a coin is now worth well north of 100USD, I decided to finally explore bitcoin wallets and mining under OSX. What are Bitcoins? A lot has been written about Bitcoins over the past weeks as they’ve broken the $100/฿ mark. Without […]
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Instek GDS-820C Teardown
Teardown of the Instek GDS-820C oscilloscope on a lazy Friday afternoon. It’s a fairly interesting design, two layer boards, no parts are leadless. The finest pitch components are the Altera FPGA and the Freescale CPU. Definitely “older” technology than a modern Tek or Agilent scope. Looks like a prototype I might build. It’s a good […]