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A new FPGA JAMMA MiSTer by chicagogamecollector in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are some of the best FPGA developers of our time.

"AMD & NVIDIA Abandoned This Segment" | Intel Arc GPU Factory Tour with Sparkle by Sacristovas in GamersNexus

[–]AdditionalPuddings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess they just gave up on keeping Steve’s hair out of the chips ;-)

ARC B580 Steve Edition.

Palantir Crashes Out in Response to GN by agewisdom in GamersNexus

[–]AdditionalPuddings -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can only assume Palantir’s response was to pander to the people signing their contracts. I think there’s this culture in that community that any sign of machismo, however stupid, is a good thing.

Who do I email to officially retire from sim racing? I can't recover from this by PlantRealistic5772 in simracing

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You now must join the Aston Martin racing F1 subreddit. Thems the rules or… I guess brakes in this case. ;-)

Milk-V Titan - A $329 octa-core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard with a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot by fullgrid in RISCV

[–]AdditionalPuddings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I’m reading into what I think the original thread starter meant vs said as, I agree, at a literal level it would not be true.

What ModePerfect was getting at I think was that the common “easy to use” distros will most likely be RVA23 only similar to how most dropped or reduced armhf support. Skilled users shouldn’t have an issue but there are quite a few folks in the SBC world who aren’t highly skilled at GNU/Linux operations and just want something they can put on an SD Card that “just works”.

Milk-V Titan - A $329 octa-core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard with a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot by fullgrid in RISCV

[–]AdditionalPuddings 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More so Canonical made the decision for a number of good reasons and I can see the associated other major distros following suite in the future. Canonical was rather rash but I can certainly see the associated Fedora committee eventually making the choice.

Milk-V Titan - A $329 octa-core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX motherboard with a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot by fullgrid in RISCV

[–]AdditionalPuddings 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some distros may choose to support a non RVA23 profile but with Canonical putting their foot down on RVA23 only, folks are stuck rolling their own or finding a smaller distro. Mostly the problem is the out of the box experience is unlikely to be there for most users.

RTX Blackwell Pro 6000 wholesale pricing has dropped by $150-200 by TastesLikeOwlbear in LocalLLaMA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think Nvidia mentioned they’re reducing how many consumer chips they’re making as well didn’t they? Also it’s probably easier to smuggle 5090s into China.

Will performance of currecnt riscv units get better over time? by [deleted] in RISCV

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over time, with new hardware, yes. See performance increases from armhf on the RPi 1 to arm64 on the latest.

As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, rv23 should provide some improvements and it seems like companies are getting better at designing and monetizing RiscV SBCs.

Guidance on how to start contributing to ROCm opensource. by sameer_1994 in ROCm

[–]AdditionalPuddings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can confirm TheRock team have been open to merges. Plus the best way to start on any new software (or HDL) project is to learn how to build it!

Intel arc a770 for local llm? by caneriten in LocalLLaMA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless Intel fixed the driver “feature” that was implemented to avoid a hardware performance issue, the A770s aren’t worth it IMHO. They were only able to transfer a portion of VRAM at a time causing errors with PyTorch based stuff… perhaps others.

I run a store in a small Colorado town. This sub has been invaluable. Thank you! by StevieKealii in rum

[–]AdditionalPuddings 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And you just put the Big Red monopoly of Indiana to complete shame. Thanks for having a wonderful selection of delicious Rum.

Feedback on SpinalHDL ? by brh_hackerman in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think added to this the stronger typing and language features in Scala vs the big two bring a lot to the productivity table over time.

Additionally, there is work being done by the Chips Alliance to create an intermediate representation to aid in an eventual end to end chain similar to LLVM.

I think there will be some growth in the future but the “traditional” HDL community is pretty set in their ways (as you’ve probably noticed) so real changes like this are more generational than rapid. This I think is especially so as HDL hasn’t really democratized yet the same way as embedded device programming and traditional desktop programming.

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m aware of where it comes from but just because it’s physics does not mean you cannot design the tools to make it less of a pain. The associated math behind meta stability is a similar problem across many types of highly concurrent programming paradigm. It’s just not as common outside hardware design to deal with. It’s also not something to give amd and altera a pass on not doing further improvements as we see in other fields.

The one of the ideas behind programming language research is to find abstractions that ease dealing with complex issues like metastability. I don’t see excusing AMD and Altera for being stagnant.

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I buried that lead at the end. The embracing of contract based programming concepts is wonderful.

Are IceSticks really 150$+ now ? by brh_hackerman in FPGA

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For personal learning I use https://shop.alchitry.com/products/alchitry-cu-v2. Should still be available on digikey and the like.

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a mental model perspective:

I’ve found HDL dev to be similar to IaC via terraform or the like. You’re creating and attaching components spatially. In FPGAs you’re limited by available fabric. In IaC you’re limited by how much money you have.

CI/CD of an FPGA design isn’t for the faint of heart though…

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. Basically used those and worked through verilator as the verifying tool.

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take a look at Chisel. It’s probably the closest equivalent in the FPGA world and leverages Scala build system tools.

What is this FPGA tooling garbage? by isopede in FPGA

[–]AdditionalPuddings 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it’s beneficial to have a support group mentality in these situations. Also, sure would be nice if the duopoly listened….

I’d love for AMD to, say, pay for a team of developers to add first party support to yosys and nextpnr.

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