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Runtime: (01:06:30)
Hosts:
Parker Dillmann
Stephen Kraig
Guest:
Al Williams
Podcast Notes
- FPGA Mega Podcast with Al Williams:
- What is an FPGA?
- Field-programmable gate array
- Bunch of logic gates and sea of gates, we tell them what to do
- Writing hardware description of what it will do – writing requirements language, You’re describing requirements
- Using VHDL or veralog, syntax is close to the C programming language
- Why not a microcontroller?
- Advantage with FPGA = parallel hardware, not a brain with steps and time running out
- People use FPGAs to get fixed deadline on when processes get finished
- 100 arduinos on an FPGA – next HackADay Article
- Mike “Hamster” Field
- Do you need hardware?
- No, you can do things via simulation.
- EDA Playground
- Can play around for free and don’t have to create login
- IceStick/IceStorm
- HackADay Learning FPGA Links
- What is an FPGA?
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Figure 1: Al Williams, Stephen Kraig, Parker Dillmann in recording this weeks podcast. We really need to clean this area up.
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!