Real Time Mandelbrot set generator

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Using the Nexys 5 FPGA, I was part of a group that created a system that could take user inputs to generate the famous mandelbrot set in real time. The system's output was to VGA however the system designed scaled to any desired resolution and was bound only to the clock speed of the device and the capabilties of the output driver.

The system used a deep pipeline architecture with over 270 pipeline stages in operation at any time (the number of stages was limitted only by the number of logical elements on the FPGA).

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Some of the generated images are shown below, all images were generated at a consisted 60 frames per second (this speed was limitted by the capabilities of VGA).