I’d like to announce the v1.0 release of vSPI!
It’s a fast serial port (up to 27.9 mbps on my Atlys Spartan-6 Devkit). It allows anyone to transfer data between their FPGA or ASIC project and their computer. I’m planning on using it to monitor the RoboBee brain in our Helicopter Brain Prototype (HBP). Pretty soon you’ll be able to see what the helicopter sees on my computer screen!
It’s written in Verilog, has an optional Xilinx EDK peripheral interface, and a easy to use python library for your PC. Go try it!
You can access the project here: https://github.com/mjlyons/vSPI
The license is pretty flexible. The only thing you have to do in order to use it is let me know that you’re using it. I’ll keep a public list on the website of who is using vSPI. If you need to secretly use it, let me know and we’ll figure out some alternative licensing scheme. My only condition is that you don’t use it for things that hurt or kill people (such as missile guidance systems).