[myhdl-list] Commercial support / training classes

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

Christopher Lozinski asked about the commercial support
I offer on myhdl.org, in particular about training classes.
Hereby some background.

I am working as an independent consultant in electronics
and EDA. For design projects, some role for MyHDL is a
preliminary condition. This is a good way to fix bugs
and drive MyHDL itself, but a disadvantage is of course
that I focus mainly on the things that I need myself :-)
I'm doing such a project (a very interesting one)
right now. In honesty, these opportunities exist
because I have good relations with a design services
company (Easics) that I co-founded myself.

As for MyHDL consulting or training - I have not yet had
requests yet. But I am available at a reasonable
consulting rate (except that it is in Euro's :-)).

As for training, the biggest issue is probably that
there is no ready-to-use  material yet. And before that,
the first issue is probably to determine what public we
would be targetting and what kind of prelimary knowledge
we should/can assume.

I have some experience with teaching classes, but it
is very limited and old - almost 20 years ago, about
using VHDL for RTL synthesis. Compared to other
training material that I have seen, it was much more
"philosophical" and less "hands-on". Not necessarily
the type of class that down-to-earth Silicon Valley
folk would find valuable :-)

In short: I think that defining and preparing a good
and meaningful class is the bottleneck, taking into
account a good insight in the target public. This
will require a significant amount of time and effort
from someone - and I'm not necessarily the best-placed
person for it.

Jan

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