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Rick York8-Jul-20 8:44

8-Jul-20 8:44

Is it something that can be done in parallel? If so, you might be able to adapt it to run on a GPU. That's what I've been doing lately and it is fascinating. For parallel computing they can be very, very fast.

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Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:55

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:55

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

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Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Maximilien8-Jul-20 9:38

Maximilien

8-Jul-20 9:38

what's FPGA ?

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

ZurdoDev8-Jul-20 9:51

ZurdoDev

8-Jul-20 9:51

Maximilien wrote:
what's FPGA ?

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Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Richard Andrew x648-Jul-20 13:56

Richard Andrew x64

8-Jul-20 13:56

Field Programmable Gate Array

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

JohnRowe8-Jul-20 21:36

JohnRowe

8-Jul-20 21:36

For a reasonably inexpensive FPGA development platform with support processor - have a look at the Evo M51 from Alorium Technology. Evo M51 | Arduino Compatible FPGA Module | Alorium Technology[^]
It is an FPGA-enhanced embedded Arduino compatible microcontroller module.
features a 32-bit SAMD51 microcontroller along with an Intel (Altera) MAX 10 FPGA.

Atmel SAMD51 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 Micro
Intel MAX 10 FPGA
Programmable with Arduino

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:57

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:57

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Stuart Dootson9-Jul-20 2:34

Stuart Dootson

9-Jul-20 2:34

I've used Xilinx products, mainly the Zynq Z7, which has a dual-core ARM together with a bunch of FPGA gates. I wasn't developing directly on the FPGA (I was putting together a Linux distro using Xilinx's PetaLinux tools), but did have a little play with Vivado, which is Xilinx's GUI design tool, which was OK.

They also do high level synthesis, which will translate C/C++ functions into bitstreams that you load into the FPGA and can then use from your code running on the ARM cores.

Overall - a Xilinx or Altera dev kit, maybe like this or this - just be aware that you also need something on your PC to be able to produce the FPGA bitstream, and some sort of cable (like this for Xilinx boards) to be able to get the bitstream into the FPGA device.

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Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:57

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:57

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

RichB20009-Jul-20 2:46

RichB2000

9-Jul-20 2:46

Maybe take a look at the Parallela project:

Parallella[^]

https://www.digikey.com/products/en/development-boards-kits-programmers/evaluation-boards-embedded-mcu-dsp/786?FV=-1|1554[^]

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:58

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:58

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

bigjosh29-Jul-20 5:43

bigjosh2

9-Jul-20 5:43

If no budget and you are mostly a software guy and are doing this because if might be useful if you can get the performance you are looking for, then consider an AWS Cloud FPGA...

Amazon EC2 F1 Instances[^]

No messing with drivers installing tools and and all the other stuff that you have to do before you can do what you want to do. Nicely documented with low slope paths for people coming from a software background. Probably the very fastest and cheapest way to get your algorithm actually running on an FPGA.

And if it does turn out that your new FPGA is useful, you can make an image deploy it on effectively an infinite number of hardware units with a click of the mouse.

-josh

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:58

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:58

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

CoolTeddyBear11-Jul-20 15:53

CoolTeddyBear

11-Jul-20 15:53

depends on your budget.
I bought a few EP2C5T144C8N mini boards through Amazon for under $20 each but you would also need the $10 'Blaster' programming cable. Look up "RioRand EP2C5T144 Altera Cyclone II FPGA Mini Development Board " on Amazon.(free shipping) just connect to 5 volts.
The Software is free from Altera (now Intel) I use Altera Quartus II 13 sp1
I have several 8 bit microprocessor emulator projects I run in them

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Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:58

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:58

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Member 1388355212-Jul-20 11:08

Member 13883552

12-Jul-20 11:08

A while back, Michaela Blott of Xilinx was the first I know of to do it all, communications and otherwise, to put a KVS onto an FPGA that handled IP requests at line rates up to 10gbps (and they projected they could do 100gbps with one FPGA node.)

https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/blott_hotcloud13_slides.pdf

Since then many have repeated this work in conferences, but I believe you can get her code and help if you use a Xilinx FPGA. Nice lady.

Charlie Johnson

Re: Advice needed for FPGA project

Patrice T12-Jul-20 11:59

Patrice T

12-Jul-20 11:59

Hi all
Thanks for advices.
I will need time to study all those options.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Unknown Error - rethinking

W∴ Balboos, GHB8-Jul-20 6:00

W∴ Balboos, GHB

8-Jul-20 6:00

So, when the system pops up that "Unknown Error" message, I wonder how it knows it's really an error?

In fact, it doesn't - it said so.

Probably an error message conceived by politicians.

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Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

Gerry Schmitz8-Jul-20 6:14

Gerry Schmitz

8-Jul-20 6:14

It's an if without an else.

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Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

honey the codewitch8-Jul-20 7:33

honey the codewitch

8-Jul-20 7:33

Sometimes I make my code just throw errors randomly to keep users on their toes.

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Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

englebart9-Jul-20 6:28

englebart

9-Jul-20 6:28

Write a source file fuzzer and see how the compiler deals with it!

Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

kalberts8-Jul-20 7:36

kalberts

8-Jul-20 7:36

Years ago, I was working with a compiler that used to throw the error message "Something wrong".

We had sort of an informal competition to make the shortest source code file that would provoke this error. If I remember right, the winner was down to four lines of code.

Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

honey the codewitch8-Jul-20 7:46

honey the codewitch

8-Jul-20 7:46

I've gotten the C# compiler to give me an internal error. I think I was doing something terrible and unforgivable with generics, admittedly. It has happened intermittently from time to time, but I've only encountered it consistently once.

That's the best I got. I love that you had a contest to confuse the compiler. It's kind of mean though. Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

megaadam8-Jul-20 10:21

megaadam

8-Jul-20 10:21

It would be a lot more surprising if it said "Known error"

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Re: Unknown Error - rethinking

Amarnath S8-Jul-20 18:17

Amarnath S

8-Jul-20 18:17

"Unknown error" is better than an incorrect result, isn't it?

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