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Poll: What Are You Doing This Summer? How About 'A Summer of FPGAs'? What Do You Want to Learn?

Summer is in the air! (Tomorrow in Chicago, it's supposed to reach the balmy 80s. Hurrah.)

 

Speaking of summer...What are you doing this summer?

 

element14 is planning right now a very special event called, "A Summer of FPGAs."

 

Over the course of the summer, element14 will be holding a lot of activities that are focused around FPGAs. We will also include new learning content, roadtests, informative webinars, and an open virtual panel discussion, The Evolution of FPGAs.

 

We are contacting multiple FPGA manufacturers to participate in this summer long and comprehensive event. If you want to learn about FPGA technology, I'd encourage you to attend or sign up for the activities.

 

We are still finalizing what A Summer of FPGAs will consist of. That's the purpose of this poll. We plan on having mini-events or content on a variety of topics. We would like to gauge your interest level or give you a chance to suggest FPGA-related topics you would like to learn about.

 

So, vote on the topic that most interests you. Or, in the comments section add an FPGA-related topic and we will bring it up in our next meetings.

 

Sincerely,

Randall Scasny

Element14 Team

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  • Definitely needs an entry-level track to try and encourage a wider range of people to create and ultimately share project ideas using them.

     

    Would be good to see a mixture of stand-alone logic device type applications as well as applications enhancing an existing microcontroller design.

     

    Given the large Arduino community, I'm surprised that the likes of the MKR Vidor 4000 based on the SAMD21 / Cyclone devices hasn't proved to be more popular in this area.

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  • Definitely needs an entry-level track to try and encourage a wider range of people to create and ultimately share project ideas using them.

     

    Would be good to see a mixture of stand-alone logic device type applications as well as applications enhancing an existing microcontroller design.

     

    Given the large Arduino community, I'm surprised that the likes of the MKR Vidor 4000 based on the SAMD21 / Cyclone devices hasn't proved to be more popular in this area.

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  • in reply to beacon_dave

    I think the Aurduino people made a few serious mistakes with that product.

    It doesn't really fit into the Arduino system very well and the software support was very poor indeed at launch.

    To do anything useful with the FPGA you need to use the Altera toolset which is a very long way from what a typical Wiring user might be used to.

    (Actually I quite like the Altera tools - this is not a criticism of them).

     

    If you want to get into playing with Cyclones there are much cheaper and more direct ways to get there.

     

    MK