[chbot] Self-sufficiency?

[Andy ZL3AG]

Woot. Looking forward to a future demo with a motor spinning at that sort of speed. :^)

We were chatting FPGA's just a few days ago, talking about the KiwiSDR. :^)


On 15/11/2016, at 2:14 PM, Steve Groom wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have supported the Altera FPGA in Australia and New Zealand for the last 17 years - I head up the technical support for Braemac supporting Altera.
> 
> I can run a hands on session one evening if enough folks are interested ?  I have some dev kits I can bring to run a processor, flash LED's etc... if that would be useful / handy?
> 
> I am currently working on BLDC control with FPGA directly to measure the BEMF with the LVDS inputs (Cyclone 3) - of course FET bridges to drive the windings, got the motor to 65,000 RPM... have torn that demo down now re-doing with MAX10
> 
> I didn't want this to be a platform to sell, but if enough are interested I am happy to impart -I speak Verilog / System Verilog as my first language  - and VHDL at a pinch.
> 
> Steve.