Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL Course

[David R. <dav...@gm...>]

I have just ordered the board from DSPtronics, the 500K flavour. There are
several reasons why I decided to buy this board. I think it would be worst
to share with the "community" such reasons.

1) We should test all the examples of the class in one board. Plus this
board has Mixed signals capabilities. This will allow to create very
interesting projects (e.g. some analog/Digital project where a type of
control is required: a board with cheap photo diode that increments an LED
intensity as a function of the light intensity. Or a set of LED that light
according to the frequency detected) . If there are "Class developers" using
different boards it will be more difficult to reach a consensus.

2) There is no need to say who the real contributors to this project
are/been... I am not. The purchasing of the board can be used as a way of
funding their contribution (Why not? I have enjoyed their e-mail for the
last year). This is better than giving money to a project without knowing
where the money is going.

3) This is a nice opportunity to have real project where MyHDL is push to
the limit. Some of the conversations here have been a little bit
"philosophical"  ... let's have a platform to test those arguments. See how
the synthesis tool works. Let's take decisions based on data that anybody
with the same tool can test, confirm or refuse. This method of working is
known as "Scientific method".

I hope more people will purchase more boards. The most difficult thing is
always the beginning. The more we work with the same tools the better...and
faster.

regards,
David

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Christopher Lozinski <
loz...@fr...> wrote:

> On 4/4/11 5:53 PM, Andrew Stone wrote:
> > I will test the course material on the Lattice XP2 Brevia.  Its a pretty
> > inexpensive board so is good for classes.
> I invited you to edit the course material.  Soon I will move it to a
> Zope 3 wiki.
>
> Please make that commitment on the wiki.
>
> Please say a little about the board, url , price, specs.
>
>
> It would be great if you would also commit to documenting the lattice
> interface.
>
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> Regards
> Christopher Lozinski
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David Rodríguez Martin
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