This week's live online chat promises to be a rip-roaring, roller-coaster thrill ride of thrust-and-parry ideas, because one topic on my personal agenda is my mega-cool Wall of Light project...
The "chat" -- which is similar to using an IM (instant messaging) system, but which actually employs your Web browser -- will commence at 12:00 p.m. CT, which is 1:00 p.m. ET, 10:00 a.m. PT, and 6:00 p.m. UTC/GMT in Sheffield, England, where my dear old mom hangs her hat.
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I wasnt able to make it this week, due mainly to having to fix other peoples broken code in time to be able to demonstrate things next week.
The interesting thing about the particular code I have been fixing is its pretty central to a lot of the products we produce and it was full of erm.. interesting techniques to retime clocks and send busses across clock domains.
The other interesting thing is the code lives in both altera and xilinx parts and its been interesting to see how the competing tools coped with the same bit of code, I may write more about that particular adventure at a later date.
So anyway the moral of the story is that when your synthesis tool tells you that there are a number of alarming problems with your code, don't just ignore it.
Max Maxfield 7/19/2012 12:13:22 PM User Rank Blogger
Re: Thursday 19-July-2012
@Hamster: "I've now got six dev boards, with a few extras addons like bread boards. Would a comparison / or what I would look for in your first board be of interest?"
Yes -- I think a comparison of the different boards you have and a "what to look for in yout first board" would both make great blogs.
Max Maxfield 7/19/2012 12:11:31 PM User Rank Blogger
Re: Thursday 19-July-2012
@Myplanet: What? I was just joking! Brian is an inventor who lives about 40 miles away -- in addition to being friends we've worked on some projects together -- whenever he comes into town he brings his two sons to drop by my office and say "Hi" -- we're just good friends -- honest :-)
I can't make it - had an early start today with a 400km commute... But if anybody has any ideas for a blog entry I'ld be interested!
Project wise I'm working on a "from scratch" DVI-D interface for Spartan 6 which could follow on from the Adam's VGA blog, although not many boards have a DVI/HDMI plug on them.
I've realised that I know very little (almost nothing at all) about verification, I verify my designs the hard way - Desgin it, simulate it, and then it either works or doesn't.
I've got two new dev boards heading my way - one of which has DDR2 on it, that works wiith the FPGA's Memory Control Block, so how hard can it that be?
I've now got six dev boards, with a few extras addons like bread boards. Would a comparison / or what I would look for in your first board be of interest?
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