Portland Latch-Up

[Steve Haynal]

Hi Group,

I am enjoying attending FOSSi's Portland Latch-Up: https://fossi-foundation.org/latchup/ This is a conference (~70 attendees) interested in open hardware development. See the link for the list of talks, many related to opensource FPGA design and tools. I found out about this conference too late to submit a full talk, but I am giving a 5-minute lightning talk tomorrow on the Hermes-Lite 2.0. I will share the video once it is posted. I am really impressed with this community and their focus on opensource, and would like to become more involved.

Yesterday I participated in my first hackfest as part of the conference. I worked through an entirely opensource flow (including FPGA synthesis and place and route) that implemented an opensource soft CPU on a small FPGA when then ran microPython. I'm not sure how useful all that is, but it sure was fun and cool.

https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/HowTo-FuPy-on-iCE40-Boards

https://micropython.org/

http://tomu.im/

73,

Steve

kf7o

 

[Steve Haynal]

Hi Group,

Here is the video of the talk. They had more time so I was able to take 12 minutes.

http://youtu.be/qlgq52IIUo8

73,

Steve

kf7o

[Bill M]

Good job on the talk.  Thanks for the link.

73,

Bill W8EI

[Sid Boyce]

Hi Steve,
Excellent and exciting presentation.
73 ... Sid.

On 06/05/2019 04:58, Steve Haynal wrote:
> Hi Group,
>
> Here is the video of the talk. They had more time so I was able to
> take 12 minutes.
>
> http://youtu.be/qlgq52IIUo8
>
> 73,
>
> Steve
> kf7o
>
>
> On Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 1:17:43 PM UTC-7, Steve Haynal wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>

> I am enjoying attending FOSSi's Portland Latch-Up:Â
> https://fossi-foundation.org/latchup/
> <https://fossi-foundation.org/latchup/> This is a conference (~70

> attendees) interested in open hardware development. See the link
> for the list of talks, many related to opensource FPGA design and
> tools. I found out about this conference too late to submit a full
> talk, but I am giving a 5-minute lightning talk tomorrow on the
> Hermes-Lite 2.0. I will share the video once it is posted. I am
> really impressed with this community and their focus on
> opensource, and would like to become more involved.
>
> Yesterday I participated in my first hackfest as part of the
> conference. I worked through an entirely opensource flow
> (including FPGA synthesis and place and route) that implemented an
> opensource soft CPU on a small FPGA when then ran microPython. I'm
> not sure how useful all that is, but it sure was fun and cool.
> https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/HowTo-FuPy-on-iCE40-Boards
> <https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/HowTo-FuPy-on-iCE40-Boards>
> https://micropython.org/
> http://tomu.im/
>
>
> 73,
>
> Steve
> kf7o

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Exciting!

 

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[Steve Haynal]

Hi All,

The official link is now:

http://youtu.be/qlgq52IIUo8
    

https://archive.org/details/latch_2019-hermes_lite

73,

Steve

kf7o

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[Alan Hopper]

Steve,

very nice presentation, thanks for including Spark. I started writing a very brief history of hl for a club talk and wondered if you could fill in some dates for the very early stages eg when did the first seed of the idea happen.

73 Alan M0NNB 

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[Graeme Jury]

Hi Steve,

Very fortuitous timing on your presentation as I have to do a 1 hour presentation at our NZART conference in early June. I will be unashamedly stealing your great material and would appreciate anything which may be helpful from any other group members.

73, Graeme ZL2APV

[Steve Haynal]

Hi Graeme and Alan,

I've shared the presentation on Google Drive. It is in Google Slides format. Feel free to use whatever you like.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JvyX-ixEId9v8GD1DuFrKUxupTHkTW4A6mcX0O9TRrI

Regarding the history, 5 years ago I was a big user of the softrock radios. I had only been into SDRs for a couple of years, and was learning and thinking about building my own. I was looking through the available ADCs and DACs on Mouser and Digi-Key and stumbled upon the AD9866. I thought it looked promising so started a project. I found the part maybe January or February of 2014. I had a prototype with the BeMicro SDK around April. I started a new job that year and progress slowed.

73,

Steve

kf7o