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A hardware based Braille note taker

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Zhang, Xuan
Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar
Murray, Iain
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2007
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Zhang, Xuan and Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar and Murray, Iain. 2007. A hardware based Braille note taker, in Boemo, E. et.al. (ed), 3rd Southern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL '07), Feb 26 2007, pp. 131-136. Mar del Plata, Argentina: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Proceedings of the 2007 3rd Southern Conference on Programmable Logic
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3rd Southern Conference on Programmable Logic
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Curtin - Faculties - Faculty of Science and Engineering - School of Electrical Engineering and Computing - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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This paper describes a Braille note taker implemented in hardware. The system is able to perform Braille to text translation as well as note taking. A method is presented on how to achieve Braille note taking using a Braille keyboard. To perform Braille to text translation, a translating system has been built based on previous work. Using Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) development platform, a system that includes the keyboard controller and translator has been hierarchically described and implemented.