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		<title>FPGA USB Interface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok..  found a site http://fpgaz.com/usbp/ that talks about creating that usb/pc connection and has some libraries to use. I&#8217;m also scouring through datasheets at Xilinx regarding the system. Apple&#8217;s support of USB development seems to be top notch, minus the fact that it needs to be written in C#..
The guys @ picocomputing demoed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quickest way to learn the way of the FPGA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a couple books on VHDL/Verilog and have come to this conclusion. Learning for the sake of learning is lame. There must be some purpose behind learning, ie. a project.
So. Here are two i&#8217;m bouncing out there.
1. (FPGA) PAR2 Repair Engine (Reed-Solomon Decoder)
2. (FPGA) x.264 to h.264 conversion engine
Both projects will utilize USB/PCI-x [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=14</link>
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		<title>FPGA Design from SCRATCH (seriously)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FPGAs are the coolest thing since sliced bread and no one knows how to use &#8216;em. That&#8217;s not quite true, but to say that there&#8217;s a steep learning curve in getting to the mystical &#8220;holy grail&#8221; of Verilog/VHDL is an understatement.
I read another blog here, but it quickly proved itself to be a little too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Changes and a new part time job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok.. Well, since I last posted I&#8217;ve graduated college and have secured a full time position as an electrical engineer.
I&#8217;ve also started a web design company, Thompson Digital Media.
Once Thompson Digital is doing more business than simply web design, i&#8217;ll transition that to media.thompsondigital.com and let the main domain be the main page allowing you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=12</link>
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		<title>The absolute worst ribs, ever!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn! Today I made the absolutely worst ribs in the history of BBQ. They weren&#8217;t horrible, they were edible, but that&#8217;s all they were. Being of the BBQ persuasion, I have come to be extremely critical of my ribs and when they aren&#8217;t up to snuff, its not a pretty sight. I committed the #1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Design is OVER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;ll take me an entire month to re-cap the events that took place over this semester. Everything worked perfectly up until the end, where only about 75% of stuff went as planned. Surprisingly, I feel that the project as a whole was a success. Definitely not the best that could have been done, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=10</link>
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		<title>The last few weeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely Psychotic! I&#8217;m pushing myself to finish my senior design project as soon as humanly possible so I can have it done and over with and not find myself in the Senior Design Lab hours before the project is due.
Fortunately! The development board I designed and built works. Simply as that, everything works. Of course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=8</link>
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		<title>Reflowed my first SMD PCB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, or last night as its 2:00 am, I reflowed my first SMD PCB using a commercial toaster oven. I bought a cheap unit from Wal-Mart that supposedly outputs 1350 Watts and has 4 burners. The process was pretty straightforward: Solder Paste your pads, lay down the components, bake&#8230; I had to follow a pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=5</link>
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		<title>The site needs a new theme..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll probably be changing this a LOT, but I do want to keep a somewhat centralized theme, so finding things doesn&#8217;t get too chaotic. The search is on!
On a side note, I&#8217;m not sure if I want to have the type of site where I&#8217;m posting a lot of &#8220;useless&#8221; information, such as this post. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blog.thompsondigital.com/?p=4</link>
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		<title>So I started a blog&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LEACHING!
That&#8217;s essentially what i&#8217;ve been doing since I&#8217;ve gotten on the internet.. Leaning, reading and retaining countless volumes of information and giving nothing back.
The other reason I created this is because i&#8217;d really like to document and track things I do so I can be more productive.
I&#8217;ll more than likely have a lot of stuff [...]]]></description>
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