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| Welcome to the Pmod hardware compatibility guide! | Welcome to the Pmod hardware compatibility guide! | ||
| - | Although you likely have seen a Pmod that meets your needs either in our [[http://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-peripheral-modules/ | + | Although you likely have seen a Pmod that meets your needs either in our [[https://digilent.com/shop/ |
| But first, a clarification. Some of you may have noticed on other pages of the Wiki or seen elsewhere that Pmods are compatible with any system board that is able to use the same communication protocol that the Pmod uses to communicate. Why bother talking about compatibility at all? | But first, a clarification. Some of you may have noticed on other pages of the Wiki or seen elsewhere that Pmods are compatible with any system board that is able to use the same communication protocol that the Pmod uses to communicate. Why bother talking about compatibility at all? | ||
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| Here's the secret: when writing software (i.e. code), if you have enough time, experience, and talent, you can program your setup to do anything you want, much like an FPGA can be programmed to do anything you want it to do. | Here's the secret: when writing software (i.e. code), if you have enough time, experience, and talent, you can program your setup to do anything you want, much like an FPGA can be programmed to do anything you want it to do. | ||
| - | But for those of us in the mortal world, including myself, it simply isn't going to be worth the effort on our end to figure out how to get all of this setup, leaving us with using the tools that are already provided for us. As comforting as it is to know some of the work may has already been done for us, how are we able to tell if such tools are available with our setup? Let's take a look. | + | But for those of us in the mortal world, including myself, it's useful |
| ===== Determining Hardware Compatibility ===== | ===== Determining Hardware Compatibility ===== | ||
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| ==== The easy cases ==== | ==== The easy cases ==== | ||
| - | Say you happened to find a Pmod that suits your needs either in our [[http://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-peripheral-modules|store]] or on the [[:start#pmod|Wiki]] and you are working with Digilent' | + | Say you happened to find a Pmod that suits your needs either in our [[https://digilent.com/shop/boards-and-components/ |
| Taking the easy route (as it's the fastest and most efficient in this case), we can do Control+F search for whatever particular protocol we are looking for. Here, we can see that the chipKIT Pro MX4 has the three communication protocols that are used by a majority of Pmods: SPI, I²C, and UART. Furthermore, | Taking the easy route (as it's the fastest and most efficient in this case), we can do Control+F search for whatever particular protocol we are looking for. Here, we can see that the chipKIT Pro MX4 has the three communication protocols that are used by a majority of Pmods: SPI, I²C, and UART. Furthermore, | ||
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| What I would recommend though is that if you are going to have to emulate a standard protocol, this may be a case where the two components are not hardware compatible. Additionally, | What I would recommend though is that if you are going to have to emulate a standard protocol, this may be a case where the two components are not hardware compatible. Additionally, | ||
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| + | ===== Hardware Compatibility Table ===== | ||
| + | Coming soon to you! (likely in 2016) | ||