Digilent Products: What They Are and How to Use Them: Digilent Expansion Modules

As you learned from James’ post, Digilent offers 63 Pmods! Each of those products has its own story of its conception and evolution. One of those products that had a very interesting beginning is the PmodLS1.

A few weeks ago while chatting with James (another intern) and Gene (our co-founder) we were discussing how the company began and how the board design process works. In this discussion we discovered that the Pmod LS1 has a beginning in education at Washington State University.

What is a Pmod? What does it take to become a Pmod? How did the Pmods come to be in the first place?