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A Core for Creativity

This product is a breakout board for learning and applying FPGAs. Our DIY-friendly boards,  are designed to simplify and accelerate your hardware projects. We make a point of providing guides to support your learning journey.

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Why an FPGA?

FPGAs, or Field Programmable Gate Arrays allow a designer to rewire logic circuits at that hardware level, on the fly. This can greatly speed up processing or allow for massively parallel operations. FPGAs are described as a system designers ‘magical black bag’, in that they can be dynamically reconfigured to match any system. However, FPGAs are a mysterious topic to most DIY tech-types. Specifically, the barriers to entry are the large learning curves, high costs, and limited open source examples.

We are building exactly the board we wished we had when we were learning about FPGAs. The Kickstarter will launch a supply of DIY-friendly FPGA boards. Funding will be reinvested in purchasing additional boards so that cheap FPGAs will be available to all future makers. MoCo Makers supports the learning process with step-by-step guides published on Instructables, Hackaday.io, our blog, and other places across the internet.

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Advantages of the FipsyFPGA

  • A very low price point for an introductory FPGA board. Other boards are closer to $60, which is too much of a price barrier for non-engineer/hobbyist. We are closer to $12.
  • Designed for rapid prototyping – with a breadboard-compatible design
  • Only uses free or open source design tools
  • Supported by numerous examples and guides from a DIY community
  • FPGAs fundamentally allow for ongoing, and adaptable hardware configurations and control, even once embedded.
  • Does not lose state on reboot
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Chip Applications:

  • Learn about FGPA design
  • I/O Port extender
  • Glue between different embedded systems
  • Software-based circuit configuration
  • Simplified prototype boards, e.g. to wire up microcontrollers and periphery electronics on the fly
  • Digital bus controller
  • PWM controller, e.g. for huge LED panels
  • Frequency generation
  • Realtime modification of signal streams, such as HDMI
  • Create neural network analogues
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