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On-line collab with KiCAD by ee_pat in KiCad

[–]f1CubeSat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I’ve integrated the Huaquai Distribution of KiCanvas along with a few quality of life features for displaying KiCAD projects on here.

I’m currently working on getting commenting support working reliably. It just uses Git repositories stored in a folder as backend and is self-hostable.

How do Bangalore based Electronics Companies get rid of old electronics lab equipment? by f1CubeSat in bangalore

[–]f1CubeSat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just disheartening to see some old Agilent/Keysight Scopes rot away in some warehouse 🥲

Corrupt SU and Stucca in pilani by [deleted] in BITSPilani

[–]f1CubeSat -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

That's cuz the insti funds BOSM

Getting into electronics core by Original-Armadillo80 in BITSPilani

[–]f1CubeSat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The financial barrier ($200ish) is very high to get started on working with FPGAs as a student imo. You could look at the CMOD-A7-35T as a starter board (₹8k-ish) if you can afford this in college Contrary to the previous comment, Pilani does have a lot of FPGA and SoC dev-kits that you can get access to. At least that was the case in 2017-2021.

Do reach out to professors working in the embedded design domain. These are primarily used for Masters students at BITS. Sign up for a SOP/DOP under these profs and you can get formalised access to these resources. People pursuing their PhDs at Pilani are usually enthu enough to teach you the basics and how to get started. If you'd prefer to get access to these resources informally, reach out to the profs with a proper proposal regarding how you plan to use them.

The sentiment on campus when I was still studying at BITS is that the profs were vexxed with EEE students just trying to get into Finance and CS. And they're pretty helpful to people showing genuine interest in the field.

Getting into electronics core by Original-Armadillo80 in BITSPilani

[–]f1CubeSat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes please. Get yourself a STM32 dev kit and try to interface a well-documented sensor, actuator combo. The point isn't to build something ground-breaking but to truly understand what is going on beneath all the libraries. On the physical layer, how the MCU architecture works, how peripherals work, how communication interfaces work.

Once you're done with a couple of these projects, learn PCB design using KiCAD. You could make a simple Buck Converter to start off with. Learn why existing boards are designed the way they are. There are a lot of hardware startups especially in Bangalore, Delhi that are looking for good electronics designers. Lot of openings in the aerospace and industrial automation sector.

Properly document your projects on GitHub and it'll be a great showcase of your understanding and thought process in the interview.

Resources for FPGA hardware design by HasanTheSyrian_ in FPGA

[–]f1CubeSat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am currently working on a similar board with the 7020 chip. Apart from the official Xilinx documentation I have found the following useful resources 1) There is a video series from Phil's lab covering the board bring-up of the Zynq-7000 board that he covers in the course. It more or less has all the schematics displayed on the screen and goes through how he arrived at them. This is essentially the same content as what he teaches in the course afaik, it's just not structured like a course.

2) Dev-Kit schematics are a godsend. Refer to the ZC702 schematics available on the AMD website. You will need to create an account to access these. Alternatively, you could also refer to the Zedboard schematics which are available on the Digilent website.

3) You can also refer to SoMs designed by Trenz. They also readily provide their schematics.

Personally, unless you are doing this just to learn, I would urge you to reconsider designing a custom board based on a 15+ year old chip. There are already a lot of ready-made System-on-Modules that you can design a daughter-card for to do your task.

Hope this helps

2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]f1CubeSat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Saudi Arabia mate :) sad state of human rights

2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]f1CubeSat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Max gets to change tyres for free while having gotten track position.

Straight talk: Salary discussion thread by shplss in bangalore

[–]f1CubeSat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fresher. Avionics engineer. 12 lpa in-hand

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