Quite recently I purchased both Samsung and Acer's C7 Chromebooks for use as mobile LINUX and FPGA development platforms, using the standard FPGA development tools
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As computing unofficially transitions from the multi-core to many-core computing era, I can't help but think about Beowulf clusters on a chip and a few tear jerking lines of the lyrics to the song "Somewhere only we know" by Keane come to mind
I have been looking at some backlight LED schematics recently with the intention of "gaining inspiration" from the designs of others when I noticed that some designs use a current limiting resistor between a TFT-LCD display's anode and cathode backlight pins.
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I have recently purchased some small TFT-LCD displays, which vary in size from about 2.0" to 4.3", to interface to FPGAs in general and the DE0-Nano in particular.

Thought I would have a quiet day today, parallel programming, considering the soul breaking, near death, mountain biking experience I had yesterday, but more about that later!
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