Final writeup

• Guidelines for your project writeup

You should submit a single zip file containing your report and your project code. Submit the zip file on provide as project (provide es4 project YOURFILE.zip).

If you've been using Git, you're welcome to just send me a link or add me to the repository instead of zipping everything up.

General inspiration

• Video showing many early arcade games
• Yoshi's nightmare - an FPGA-based video game. This author does an excellent job explaining how FSMs, ROMs, VGA, etc. all work together to make a complete game. Worth reading if your team is building an arcade game.

Part datasheets

• MCP3002-I/P ADC
• AT25SF321-SSHD-T SPI flash memory

Memory

• The Big Guide to Memory

Displaying graphics and color

• How to get color with not many bits

LED panels

• Sparkfun article describing how LED matrices work
• Tutorial describing FPGA interface to BeagleBone
• Adafruit tutorial

Audio

• Short video about how sound synthesizers work
• Playing music on stepper motors

MIDI

• MIDI tutorial from Sparkfun

Game controllers