[myhdl-list] Cordoba Poster

[Jan L. <jan...@et...>]

Hi everybody,
After some discussion with the conference chair I was able to put up  
the poster on the second of three days. I also put 30 flyers there,  
that were all gone by the end. The poster was much smaller in the end,  
maybe A1 and contained some printing artifacts. My spanish is way too  
bad to argue with the guys in the printing shop (they somehow imported  
it into corel draw, who knows why)

The interest in the poster was good. Of the about 100 conference  
participants (the vast majority from argentina or brazil)  maybe 15 to  
20 people were interested and I was able to explain some details. Some  
(not more than 5, mainly students) seemed really interested and might  
try MyHDL.

What I really missed was a code example on the poster and some  
explanation that MyHDL is not about High-Level-Synthesis but more or  
less normal RTL design. I wrote Chris a separate mail on that topic.  
The same applies for the flyer. People like to see code.

Currently, I brought both versions of the poster with me to germany.  
But as has already been pointed out, shipping such a thing is more  
expensive than printing a new one.

The best thing has been to meet with Martin and Jose. Jose did a great  
talk on MyHDL the first day, and I have been able to refer to that  
during the poster sessions.

So in general, this rather small effort was a good way to make MyHDL  
known in the south american hardware community in a way that maybe if  
a student like Martin wants to use MyHDL chances are good that his  
professor will have heard about it :-) Paying real money or spending  
an engineers valuable time will probably be not worth it (I would have  
just eaten more cookies without the poster, being there anyway)
Jan

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Jan Langer
Professorship Circuit and System Design
Chemnitz University of Technology, Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09126 Chemnitz
Phone: +49 371 531-33158, Fax: +49 371 531-833158
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/sse