This is a project I made quite a while back (about 7 months ago). I wanted a bigger display for a project of mine and noticed that PlayStation Portable displays (480×272 pixels) are quite cheap on eBay but they do not have an integrated controller/display driver. It seemed like a perfect project to practice using FPGAs so off I went. The PCB is a 4-layer design containing an Altera Cyclone […]
In the next phase of creating a PCB with KiCad you must connect the components to “modules” (a term KiCad uses to refer to footprints) with cvpcb. You can open cvpcb from the KiCad main window by pressing the second large button. cvpcb will issue a warning about not finding a .cmp file but this is normal before you have saved with cvpcb (which in turn creates the .cmp file). […]
Recently I have been using KiCad as my one and only EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tool and I think it’s surprisingly good. I’m not sure why it is not more widely used (maybe because of the fairly crappy website?) because it really is comparable to Eagle and other cheap/free EDA tools. The biggest pro is of course the fact that KiCad is an open source software and has no limitations on […]