[chbot] FPGA Topic ...

[Mark Atherton]

Steve,

I will take a look at the email reflector, but your messages are getting 
through OK as far as I can make out.

Personally, yes, an FPGA evening would be most interesting, and there 
should be little problem securing the BR05 clubroom for an evening.

Several of us have bought DE0-nano boards. I also have a DE0-SOC (ARM9 + 
FPGA), which needs to get dusted down.

Probably need to get those interested to bring their own laptops with 
Quartus installed; Steve, can you furnish us with a list of 
prerequisites (and versions) otherwise we will spend the evening getting 
PCs configured.

BR05 has three win7 machines, and a couple of win7 notebooks/external 
22" LCDs available, so maybe five seats. What sorts of number are you 
hoping for ?

Who else in the group would be interested in an FPGA evening ? -- please 
register interest here.

Regards,

Mark

On 15/11/2016 3:17 PM, Steve Groom wrote:
> A Resend to see if I can evade the 'you are not human' bot... as a new Topic.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Groom
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2016 2:14 PM
> To: chchrobotics at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
> Subject: RE: [chbot] Self-sufficiency?
>
> 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.