[chbot] FPGA Topic ...

[Charles Manning]

Here.

I have a DE0-Nano chugging away at my desk. Also have a SOCFPGA board.
Wickedly powerful for various uses.

I have Altera tools set up on two or three laptops (Linux).



On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Yani Dubin <yani.dubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve and Mark,
>
> I would be interested. I believe the DE0-nano (Cyclone IV) is the only
> Altera based HW I have.
>
> I have been meaning to ask you about your BLDC project Steve - so would be
> keen to see a presentation on it if you are giving one.
>
> Cheers,
> Yani.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
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