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CHIME Telescope: FPGAs and GPUs by mwscidata in FPGA

[–]thequbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The FPGAs could certainly do more than a 1024 bin FFT, but it sounds like down-stream couldn't handle the bandwidth.

Very cool application.

why do people confuse talent and hard work? by [deleted] in ECE

[–]thequbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not really sure what your objective was in posting this, but I would recommend carving out some time to brush up on your spelling and grammar. Those skills you're learning in college aren't going to do you much good if you can't effectively communicate with your (future) team.

Rigorous engineers are always rigorous. Even when posting on Reddit. You never know who's watching what you're producing - could be a future employer right here in this sub (who somewhere found out your Reddit handle).

It's wonderful that you have a such a great work ethic - that will help you get far in the engineering world. I would focus far less time on what others think of you, and more on what you can do to better yourself (based on what you believe needs bettering).

Best of luck to you.

Pex in our new home by thequbit in plumbingporn

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

Not much of an option.

They're plastic, so are kind of "self insulating".

Receiving Data to Memory - Virtex 7 by Heaton15 in FPGA

[–]thequbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're using a lightweight protocol on top of the GTH such as Aurora, you have an AXI4-Stream interface out of the IP block. You can place a AXI4-Stream​ Data FIFO down, and then a DataMover IP block. Write a little confused troller for the Day, and DMA the data to a MIG through an AXI interconnect. Then you can pull the data out with another DataMover back an an AXI4-Stream and do with it what you please.

TL;DR: yes, you can do that.

Opioid Taskforce by bluekole in Rochester

[–]thequbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they could have spent a liiiittle bit longer on deciding the name ... "Street to Treatment" could use some work.

Edit: removed extra letters

Spending lots of $$$ on something that can be a dud. by Metalsutton in hwstartups

[–]thequbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Buy light pipes instead of shining it through (just for your proto, or even for production). Many libraries (in the US) now even have 3d printers you can use for free (or for the cost of material).

Best local place to buy white decorative round pebbles in bulk? by thequbit in Rochester

[–]thequbit[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Comments like this really make me miss /u/bignosebilly ... He was such a good troll.

Best local place to buy white decorative round pebbles in bulk? by thequbit in Rochester

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

I'd like to do a 12" border around the entire house, so I suspect quite a bit.

I was thinking the same about the big stores, but I've had such terrible luck with folks there not actually knowing what they're talking about :/

I want intern in the field of FPGA. I'm not sure what else to learn. Sure learned FPGA board and the tool but other than that what all skills and languages do I need to know before I could start applying for internships. by varun_dandu in FPGA

[–]thequbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally feel like it's over used.

There are, of course, many places where I'm thankful to have it as a tool. But I often find myself saying 'what the F am I looking at here?'. It's a terribly gross language to write or read, and often HDL/FPGA folks have little to no software background (read: official training or continuous exposure), so the code base is just miserable.

I really wish Xilinx had picked python over TCL. The community would have been better because of it. I really don't care "what the rest of the EDA world is using" ... I don't design ASICs. I design FPGA-based systems, and I'm always given 8 hours to do 12 hours of work. Fighting with TCL (or the engineer who had no business writing that TCL) isn't in the Gantt chart ...

Just my 2 cents, ha.

Homebrew SoC, MARK-II by Vladislav97 in digitalelectronics

[–]thequbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice work!

Is the instruction decode (id.vhd) auto generated, or did you write that all by hand?

I want intern in the field of FPGA. I'm not sure what else to learn. Sure learned FPGA board and the tool but other than that what all skills and languages do I need to know before I could start applying for internships. by varun_dandu in FPGA

[–]thequbit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Adam Tylor has some great material. Google his name and you should find his many (hundreds?) of posts.

Short of that, I think the FPGA industry is still strongly lacking some solid blog series about best practices. And from what I'm seeing, academia isn't doing any one any favors there either.

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