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How do I download the HW and SW labs for PIIP?

rt54321 — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:20:56 GMT

Greetings! I'm trying to follow the labs and examples for the Path II Programmable training series (both the HW and SW labs), but I can't find the labs to download. Is this still available?

Path II Programmable: Embedded Vision Project on the Ultra96-V2

rscasny — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:38:17 GMT

The Path II Programmable training project trains element14 members by providing them with free FPGA/SoC training modules with lab exercises. Learn more about Path II Prtogrammable here: Path II Programmable: About Training Project

Once the trains and labs have been completed, the trainees will build a project with the Avnet Ultra96-V2 development board, which is an Arm-based, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ™ MPSoC development board based on the Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition (CE) speciﬁcation.

This project was developed by element14 top member ralphjy. He says that "I'd like to implement an embedded vision system. The input would be a H264/5 video stream from an IP camera or an NVR. The input would be an RTSP stream over the network (either wifi or ethernet). If I can get the base configuration working I'd like to extend it to multiple inputs and possibly an output to the NVR. I'd like to have some level of detection/identification capability. My thought is to use one of the quantized neural network implementations that I've tried on the PYNQ-Z2 (new overlays are available for the Ultra96)."

Here are the two blogs that describe Ralph's Embedded Vision Project:

PIIP Embedded Vision Project

PIIP Project - Creating xfOpenCV IP using Vivado HLS

Re: Getting sick and Deadlines

rscasny — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:40:43 GMT

I was contacted by one trainee who has been sick; he was concerned about meeting his deadlines.

If you are sick, take care of yourself first. When you can, notify me, and I'll make some adjustments.

Thanks.

Randall

PIIP - PetaLinux 2018.3 Installation missing files

ralphjy — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:21:57 GMT

Hi,

This is a question for my fellow trainees. I just discovered that I'm missing some files from my PetaLinux install and I just wanted to ask whether others are having this problem or if I have made an error installing or am using a corrupt install.

I normally run the SDK from the shortcut icon on my VM desktop and that has been working fine. In PetaLinux Lab 4 the SDK is started from the command line - xsdk and that failed because it couldn't find the Java runtime required by the SDK (it was a warning but it failed to start). When PetaLinux was installed the instructions were to modify the .bashrc file so that the PATH was changed to point to the PetaLinux install files. The JRE files are missing from my PetaLinux file tree (/tools/petalinux-v2018.3-final) but are there for the Xilinx file tree (/tools/Xilinx).

I copied files to eliminate the jre problem but encountered more missing files.

Anyone else have this problem? If not I'll have to hunt for why I am missing files.

Thanks,

Ralph

Add Avnet's Ultra96 Advanced Courses to the Awards

cmelement14 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:16:59 GMT

Hi Randall (rscasny),

Do you think I ask too much if you can discuss with our kindly sponsor Avnet regarding adding their Ultra96 advanced course materials as one more award for the Path II Programmable training program?

I really enjoy the Path II Programmable training materials even it is only at the introductory level. It serves the training purpose very well - help trainees to overcome the challenge of developing with FPGA and encourage people dig further into the devices and use them in their projects and products. Using my own experiences as an example, I probably tried learning FPGA at least 5 times in the past 10 years, but never lasted more than a month each time. The biggest challenge was lack of detailed instructions plus very slow progress. On the other hand, this training program provides step-by-step instructions and gradually dig deeper and deeper. You can see the results and feel the achievement. It attracts me to finish the labs one by one. So far, I have completed the whole hardware training course - both videos and labs. It's a great journey and thank you and our sponsors for this great program. However, after finishing the hardware module, I feel there's a force luring me to learn more in FPGA design. Thus, I ask if you can discuss with our kindly sponsor Avnet regarding adding their Ultra96 advanced course materials as one more award.

Thanks again for organizing this great training program. It's an incredible journey for me so far. I will continue my journey and finish the remaining two modules.

Path II Programmable : Challengers announcement ?

paritoshks10 — Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:50:03 GMT

Hi, According to the updated schedule, the challengers were to be declared on 27th September 2019. Is there any unnotified further delay ? or is the list of challengers is declared already ?

Update: We are getting more kits for Path II Programmable

rscasny — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 19:27:58 GMT

I spoke to our sponsor last week and we decided to offer more trainee slots -- 10 instead of 5.

I am being sent the extra 5 kits this week. I'll received them in a few days.

Thank you for your patience.

Randall

--element14 team.

According to schedule Are the trainees declared or not?? If yes than please provide the information about it.

harin — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:22:20 GMT

According to schedule Are the trainees declared or not?? If yes than please provide the information about it.

There is no button on step 3... How do I apply ?

hmv — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:37:36 GMT

There is no button on step 3... How do I apply ?