Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

nixiefairy — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:35:49 GMT

Learnt a lot through this course. Though I have covered most of this material earlier, it was a great refresher for me and I got to see new things that weren't covered in material which I knew.

It was fun to read projects and blogs of various participants. Looking forward to the next series. A big thanks to [mention:55e535b498a841ed8f2949266bc56dc3:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] and the team to put up this course.

Eashan

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

aspork42 — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 02:56:27 GMT

LOVED being able to participate in the training. It was a great experience and I learned a ton along the way. It would be great for a future training to start with basics of what is an FPGA and what can and can't be done with them.

[mention:193ac2434c814a24b46635a2210baec1:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] - You're so right about 'what training comes with a prize?' - The prizes certainly have a motivating effect; but as any design challenge participant knows, you certainly put some hours in to earn them.

My original goal was to create a line follower which seemed to be a perfect application for the FPGA, but the learning curve got in the way. I'm still poking at the MiniZed and the community has been great in helping out when I get stuck. I knew next to nothing about FPGAs when I began, and was still able to complete the training. Creating the project was a big challenge and I spent a lot of time working on Plans A, B, C, and D before settling on plan E which was pretty far from the original goal.

Big thanks again to Xilinx, Avnet, and biggest thanks of all to [mention:55e535b498a841ed8f2949266bc56dc3:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] and the E14 team for putting this together!

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

brycewilkins — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:29:14 GMT

I missed the first Path to Programmable, but I'm excited to hear there is a next version coming that will be open to all members [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-22db82ff-2ebe-48b7-948b-297ee79bfe00/contentimage_5F00_2516.png:16:16] And, wow, it will be based on Ultra96 !!! Some serious kit for learning -- steep learning curves ahead! But looking forward to it!

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

14rhb — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:04:04 GMT

Having 'dabbled' with Vivado/FPGA in the Digilent ARTY S7 Dev Board (Xilinx Spartan 7) - Review I really enjoyed reading the participant's regular blog posts - many thanks for them perservering with this long and complex course whilst also keeping us other members up to date. The participants have managed some really interesting end projects that I have also enjoyed reading about. I am sure I'll be regularly checking that wealth of information they have provided.

This is really great technology and it is great to see the phrase...

with more classes to come.

Rod

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

dougw — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 01:32:15 GMT

Congratulations on making it through the course and thanks for blogging about it.

Those are some very nice rewards. How many courses have you ever taken that came with such awards?

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

DAB — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:12:54 GMT

Another excellent element14 challenge.

DAB

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

genebren — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:02:59 GMT

Well done to all that have completed the necessary steps along the path to programmable! I hope that you all found plenty of rewards (in addition to the gifts above) along your path.

Gene

RE: Path to Programmable: Final Projects and Graduation Awards

Fred27 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:57:22 GMT

Some very nice projects there. Well done.

Path to Programmable 2 sounds interesting but once again focuses on a very powerful programmable device. I wonder if a lot of members would also benefit from the simpler end of programmable logic - i.e. getting started with a more basic and slightly less daunting FPGA?