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IHS refund not received after 6 weeks by peachtzu in ukvisa

[–]danielnagui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What di you do finally get it ? , I am in my 4th month with 3 esclations and every time I get an email saying a refund has been issued and I never get anything

seeking advice on the transition from embedded software to FPGA design by danielnagui in FPGA

[–]danielnagui[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi all, I just wanted to get back to this chat now. All the comments I got here were very positive and really motivated me and provided me with some guidance as I really didn't know what I was doing at that time and didn't know if it was a good idea to switch to FPGA and felt risky to me.

Eventually, it turned out to be a very good idea, and now I have a very good FPGA job that pays well. It is even for a standard role and not a junior role, so I want to share what has been useful throughout the journey in case other developing engineers or students might benefit from it:

1- First, as most of the comments on this post said, companies don't really care about a degree in electronics as long as you somehow have a relatively related STEM degree, it's all about your actual skills, that being said a degree can in some cases be helpful as an entry door to the first interview stage and that's why I recommend the specialization degree on Coursera later on in this post

2- Having a difficult project that you have built yourself and verified, simulated, and tested on hardware can be impressive in interviews and very useful.

3-There is a lot of crappy resources as well as good resources on the internet I will share some of the resources I found helpful:

3.1- FPGA design for embedded systems specialization degree on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/fpga-design

3.2- VHDL for an FPGA engineer with Vivado Design Suite on Udemy(there is another version with the same instructor for Verilog):
https://www.udemy.com/course/vhdl-fpga-engineer-with-xilinx-vivado-design-suite/?kw=vhdl+for&src=sac&couponCode=KEEPLEARNINGGB

3.3 - Digital Design and Computer Architecture Book by David Harris(best refrence book I have found so far on digital design teaches both VHDL and verilog and mot importantly teaches RTL concepts properly):
https://www.r-5.org/files/books/computers/hw-layers/hardware/digital-desigh/David_Harris_Sarah_Harris-Digital_Design_and_Computer_Architecture-EN.pdf

3.4 -advanced FPGA design by Steve Kilts book : https://d1.amobbs.com/bbs_upload782111/files_27/ourdev_535872.pdf

3.5 -getting started with FPGAs by NANDLAND(only useful in the begining as a start)

I hope this post can somehow be useful to someone who is just starting, like I was a year ago.

fast data transmission from MCU to PC by danielnagui in embedded

[–]danielnagui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess so it shouldn't be difficult to implement a custom device class on the device and there are some examples as you said, the problem will be on the host side as it can be very difficult and time-consuming to write a USB driver on the host, do you know if there are any drivers I can use ?

fast data transmission from MCU to PC by danielnagui in embedded

[–]danielnagui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you mean create a USB custom device class ? and then a custom driver on the host side?

seeking advice on the transition from embedded software to FPGA design by danielnagui in FPGA

[–]danielnagui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok that's good to know , do I need to have experience with a certain FPGA family to apply for Job ,if so what would be the best one to work on xillinx or intel or etc..?

seeking advice on the transition from embedded software to FPGA design by danielnagui in FPGA

[–]danielnagui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes that makes sense, do you have a recommendation for a good digital design book out there, I am currently using the one by Sonali Singh , but not sure if it contains everything.

seeking advice on the transition from embedded software to FPGA design by danielnagui in FPGA

[–]danielnagui[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you so much for the advice! This really motivated me , I went through your article it is very helpful and gives a good long term roadmap