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✨ Frogger FPGA Team 6 ✨

What is the purpose of this project? 📚

This project aims to create a Frogger game using the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology. We handle input, output, screen display and even memory management using Verilog.

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What is Frogger? 🐸

  • The goal of the game is to move a frog from the bottom of the screen to the top. There’s only one problem: The frog is trying to cross a busy highway filled with cars! You must carefully control the frog to cross the road without getting hit by a car.

Our Frogger game will contain colorful sprites, though no sounds can be handled as the only way we can display the game on a monitor is with a VGA port.

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How can we play the game? 🕹️

To play the game, you'll need to have some required elements:

macOS Setup

Then, you'll need to setup apio on your machine. To do this, follow the steps on this link.

Once you've setup the software, all you need is

  • download our latest release
  • connect the board to your computer with the micro-USB cable
  • upload it into the board using the apio upload command on your terminal (make sure you're in the Frogger folder!)

Then, if the board is correctly plugged and connected to a VGA monitor, the game will launch!

LilyPad 🪷

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LilyPad is a console we've made beside the Frogger game. The Go-Board contains the game you want to play, you put it correctly inside the console, and it's plug & play!

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The console has been constructed to contain the Go-Board, letting the 7-Segment displays visible. Also, the Pmods have been placed specifically to create controller plugs.

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As we created a console, we needed to create controllers as well, and we did.

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Note: The game is totally playable with only a Go-Board, but the console and controllers will allow a huge experience!

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Can we buy/recreate the console? 🎮🕹️👾

Yes, you could be able to create your own LilyPad! You can even order one to our team.

To know everything about the cost of a LilyPad, you can check this link.

Also, you can check the LilyPad Documentation to dive deeper into the subject!

"FPGA"? How does this work? 💾

The FPGA is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing. We actually used the Go-Board provided by Russell Merrick, who taught us how to deal with this technology at ALGOSUP.

To be able to upload some code in this hardware, we used Verilog as a programming language.

Who are the people in the team? 🤝

Team 6 involves few coworkers, handling different roles:

Role               Name Picture
Project Manager Enzo GUILLOUCHE
Program Manager Evan UHRING
Technical Leader Maxime CARON
Software Engineer Elone DELILLE
Quality Assurance Axel DAVID
Technical Writer Pierre GORIN

Here are their contributions to the project!

The project's documentation