Polls

FPGA Dev Board, in a Arduino Mega footprint

Former Member — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:01:08 GMT

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I am considering starting a new project, so would anyone be interested in a FPGA Dev Board in an Ardiuno Mega footprint. Im thinking a Spartan-6(LX9), with about 100 or so I/O's.

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Tags: fpga, fpga_development_kit

Preferred OS

Former Member — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:01:00 GMT

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What OS do you prefer to run synthesizers, simulators and compilers on?

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Tags: environment, os

What were the original community members for ZedBoard called?

zedhed — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:47 GMT

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When ZedBoard was announced publicly during Spring of 2012, what were the original ZedBoard.org community members planning to call themselves?

Tune in to the Legend of Zed: A Tour of ZedBoard webinar to find out the truth behind the legend:

The Legend of Zed: A Tour of ZedBoard

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Poll: Seeking Your Interest in Sound+Vision AI Workshop: Demo on Detecting Sneezing or Dog barking?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:42 GMT

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A few days ago I spoke with a supplier is interested in conducting an AI workshop on Sound Classification and Vision Object Detection. This workshop sounds interesting because it combines two senses, vision and sound. I ran a poll on this workshop here: Poll: Seeking Your Interest in Sound Classification and Vision Object Detection WorkShop

This workshop demonstrates how today's products are becoming more sophisticated. It brings together vision and sound AI models that when used together enable more intelligent products making better application decisions. And it takes you through the network development flow for sound classification (detecting certain sounds) and vision object detection and walking you through our reference design that has sound and vision sensors sharing meta data that enable a higher level application to leverage certain events it sees and hears.

The supplier has two demo options:

1. Detect sneeze….then face detect…then detect is person wearing mask or not

2. Detect dog barking….then vision to confirm dog or not

Poll: which option would you prefer to see demonstrated?

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Tags: community survey

Poll: Seeking Your Interest in Sound Classification and Vision Object Detection WorkShop

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:41 GMT

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I was speaking with a supplier who may be interested in conducting an AI workshop on Sound Classification and Vision Object Detection. This workshop sparked my interest because it combines two senses, which I found unique. But you tell me. I have pasted below the working draft of this workshop. Id like to know if it captures your interest and to what degree. If you have any other ideas or "tweaks" to the proposal, feel free to post a comment below. Thanks.

Title: Does Your Application Need Better Eyes and Ears?

Description:

Today’s products are becoming more sophisticated as they better understand the world around them. The technology making this possible is AI leveraging neural networks. Today, these networks are being used for a wider variety of tasks and do not require cloud resources. Xilinx MPSoCs make this possible by more efficiently processing these networks at the edge while offering standard Linux software (Ubuntu) and popular AI framework environments (Keras) that AI and embedded developers are familiar with.

Product teams are also discovering that the use of these networks, that process different types of sensor data such as microphones and cameras, can take on more sophisticated tasks and produce more reliable results. This workshop brings together a confluence of vision and sound AI models that when used together enable more intelligent products making better application decisions. More specifically, this workshop will take you through the network development flow for sound classification (detecting certain sounds) and vision object detection and walking you through our reference design that has sound and vision sensors sharing meta data that enable a higher level application to leverage certain events it sees and hears.

What you will learn:

• What makes the Xilinx MPSoC unique regarding neural network processing at the edge

• How to use Aaware Sonus AI to tune sound classification models (how to retrain models with additional environmental background noise)

• How to use Aaware sound classification models together with Xilinx Model Zoo vision models

• How to access the Aaware sound and Xilinx vision model APIs to build higher level AI based applications at the edge

Target markets:

• Security & Surveillance

• Robotics

• Conferencing

• Kiosks

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Tags: community survey

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

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:38 GMT

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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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Tags: a summer of fpgas, community survey

Poll: What is Your Interest in LIDAR Webinars?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:29 GMT

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We are brainstorming webinars that we would like to offer this year. LIDAR technology seems to be on everyone's minds lately. We wanted to get your feedback on some of the possible webinars we may like to offer on this technology.

Poll question: From the selections below, which webinar title interests you the most?

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Tags: community survey

What Zedboard Do You Prefer Working With and Why?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:59:06 GMT

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What Zedboard Do You Prefer Working With and Why?

In the comments, please explain why you chose your preferred Zedboard?

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How Many Transistors Does This FPGA Have?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:59:03 GMT

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The Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P is one big chip.

It has 9 million logic cells and 2,072 user I/Os.

It can be used for emulation and prototyping in areas such as test, measurement, compute, networking, aerospace and defense-related applications.

Poll Question: How many transistors does it have?

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Poll: Why are You Developing your Current Design with an FPGA?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:59:01 GMT

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Microcontrollers, microprocessors, ASICs, FPGAs, heterogeneous SoCs. They all have their advantages and drawbacks. But you have to make a choice which one to use for your next design.

Poll question: Why are You Developing your Current Design with an FPGA?

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Tags: community survey

FPGA/Programmable Device Content: Seeking your feedback on what you are interested in

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:58:55 GMT

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Besides running roadtests (and reading all those applications), hosting webinars, and anything else that needs being done (people like to stop by my desk), I try to work with people to get content written on topics of interest. Right now I'm working on getting some FPGA / programmable device content written. I've drawn up a rough content topic list. All the topics relate to FPGAs or other programmable logic devices. I would appreciate you voting or offering a suggestion. Thanks.

Randall

-element14

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Tags: scasny, scasny_web

What is your interest in learning about how FPGAs are used in Data Centers?

rscasny — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:58:34 GMT

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I am having an article written about how FPGAs are used in data centers.

It will cover:

How FPGAs solve the problems data centers have in relation to data velocity, volume and variety/types of data.

It will go through common data center applications of FPGsA such as FPGA acceleration.

It will cover FPGA acceleration and the architecture.

Finally it will go through an application, probably AWS

Question: does this interest you? Or, what would you like to know about data centers and FPGAs? Is there anything else you would like cover in this type of article?

thanks.

Randall Scasny

-element14

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How do you use PetaLinux & Yocto?

mbrown — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:58:17 GMT

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Calling all Xilinx SoC users...

You may know that Xilinx offers a Linux build environment called PetaLinux. It is a "productivity layer" on top of a Yocto/BitBake backend.

There seems to be an obvious progression, where you start OS bring up in PetaLinux, then consider migration to pure Yocto.

But is that what you are doing? Please click on one option below.

Any insight or feedback is welcome.

Thanks!

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Tags: yocto, avnet_prog, avnet, petalinux, fpgafeatured, xilinx zynq soc, xilinx zynq

Not-as-expensive FPGA Boards

johnbeetem — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:57:55 GMT

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I haven't done a poll in a while so I thought it would be fun and instructive to do one about less-expensive FPGA boards. One of the challenges of getting into FPGA design is that the boards are usually a lot more expensive than a Raspberry Pi or a microcontroller board from ST, NXP, or TI. This may prevent people from giving FPGAs a try, which in turn makes the boards more expensive since they're manufactured in smaller quantities.

Still, if you look around there are some nice boards under US$100 and even under US$50. I highly recommend Joel Williams' list of Cheap FPGA Development Boards.

Here are some boards available for US$50 or less that seem particularly interesting. I've used the Papilio One and iCEstick myself.

Gadget Factory Papilio One 250K: This is one of my favorite boards and IMO a very good value at US$38. It has a Xilinx Spartan-3E 250K, 48 I/Os on headers, and a JTAG programmer. It's currently out of stock, but you get its "big brother" with a 500K part for US$65.
Generic Cyclone II board: Two years ago Michael Kellett wrote a nice 'blog about a US$15 Altera Cyclone II board available from Chinese distributor AliExpress. It's an impressive board, except that it doesn't come with a programmer. Michael was able to get a bundle with a programmer for just under US$50.
Lattice iCEstick: At US$22 from some vendors, this is the least expensive FPGA board I know of that includes a programmer. It has a Lattice iCE40 1K LUT FPGA, which is a small FPGA -- maybe a fifth the capacity of Papilio One 250K. On the other hand, iCE40 is the only FPGA that has a fully open-source tool chain.

Numato Labs Mimas: At US$35, Numato's Mimas is the cheapest Spartan 6 LX9 board I've seen with a programmer. It has a lots of I/O on headers, along with some LEDs and push-buttons. Numato is based in India, so I don't know what shipping is like. Numato also has Mimas V2 for US$50, which adds 64MB DDR SDRAM, VGA connector, and 3-digit 7-segment display but much less general-purpose I/O than Mimas. And they also have the US$30 Elbert V2 with a 50K Xilinx Spartan 3A and I/O similar to Mimas V2.

Scarab Hardware miniSpartan3 is a small Xilinx Spartan 3A board with a 50K or 200K part for $30 or $40, including an on-board programmer. I've never dealt with Scarab personally. The miniSpartan3 is a nice size to incorporate into other projects and has lots of general-purpose I/O.

So which one do you like best? Or is there another not-as-expensive FPGA board you prefer? If you have experience with any of these boards or vendors, please comment.

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Tags: icestick, papilio, xilinx, cyclone, fpgafeatured, fpga, lattice, altera, spartan

Polls

migration.user — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:55:41 GMT

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06 - The "Project" poll

nixiefairy — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:17:22 GMT

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Blog poll : 06 - "The Projekt"

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Tags: path-to-programmable, minized