Typin Dots (Electronic Typewriter) - Advanced Digital Design Final Project

For our CMPEN 371 Advanced Digital Design final project at Penn State Behrend, we made an electronic typewriter. The project name is Typin Dots. The system is made of a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to a Nexys 2 FPGA board. The FPGA board contains our built-from-scratch hardware design written in VHDL which consists of a keyboard driver and a printer driver. The FPGA board is then hooked up (via 2 PMOD ports) to a custom-built Centronics parallel printer interface which is laid out on a breadboard. The breadboard then hooks up to the printer cable which goes to the OKI Microline 320 Turbo dot-matrix printer.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• digital
• design
• dot-matrix
• dot
• matrix
• printer
• typewriter
• ps2
• keyboard
• driver
• vhdl
• breadboard
• centronics
• parallel
• interface
• oki
• microline
• 320
• turbo
• pmod
• nexys
• nexys2
• fpga