Design and Implementation of Washing Machine HUD Using FPGAs

2025/06/12 by Norman Stites, Stites, Norman, Darshika G. Perera +1
Engineering · #Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization #Vehicle License Plate Recognition #Industrial Automation and Control Systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2506.11287

Abstract

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.

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