Mons2015 LED Screen ElectroSuper

DESCRIPTION :

A HUGE hardware and software project is installed during 2015 at the railway station of Mons in Belgium.

Fred Sapey-Triomphe installed a 168m² LED screen that shows videos and interacts with the passengers' flow with passive sensors.

YGDES/Yann Guidon designed and installed all the electronics and software (C/VHDL). A special motherboard for the WizYasep extends its features to provide 20 asynchronous outputs and sequence the power of 4 blocks of PSUs. All video data are streamed through a 100Mbps Ethernet network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgpFfJ7wklg

COMPONENT USED : 
1 × Raspberry Pi B+
1 × RTC module
keeps the RPi synched
1 × Ethernet hub
1 × 5V power supply
for the hub & Pi
4 × PIR sensors
6 × WizYasep controller boards
converts UDP to RGB LED asynchronous serial streams
6 × WizYasep extension boards
provides 12 more channels and power sequencing
120 × 150W Power supplies
16800 × RGB LED balls

• Headers (2,54mm pitch) : Wiznet, JTAG, X (9 GPIO @3.3V, 16 bits data bus, 10 bits adress), Y (8 5V outputs), Z (8 GPIO @3.3V, shared with the serial/SPI console and external reset)
• Ethernet : Wiznet module (WIZ830MJ) with a W5300 controller chip (PHY, MAC, 128Ki bytes of buffer, hardwired IP, ARP, TCP, UDP...)
• FPGA : Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 A3P250-VQ100 (6144 logic gates, 8 dual port SRAM blocks (512 bytes each), PLL, 68 I/O pins...)