In contemporary digital design education, practical field programmable gate array (FPGA) projects are indispensable for bridging theoretical concepts with real-world applications. This project focuses on developing a hardware-based simulation of a domestic washing machine controller using the Xilinx Spartan-3E development board. A critical component of the design is the graphical heads-up display (HUD), which renders real-time information about the machine's operational state and cycle selections via a VGA interface.
@article{arxiv.2506.11287,
title = {Design and Implementation of Washing Machine HUD Using FPGAs},
author = {Norman Stites and D. G. Perera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11287},
year = {2025}
}