Run by Jonathan, a hands-on workshop for the ICE40 Field Programmable Gate Array.
I’ll give a brief intro, then we’re going to install the toolchain and make a helloworld-type LED-blinking program. It’s hands-on, so you need at least an idea of what FPGAs are and why you might want to program one, but no actual experience necessary – this is the first step to get you going.
PS. It has to be noted that only some types of biscuit are compatible with FPGAs. I have tested “Balhsen Choco Leibniz” biscuits and can confirm both the Milk and Dark kind work very well.
Just a note about the Cambridge NetFPGA competition: it’s for a particular board with a pretty big Xilinx FPGA and lots of network connections, deadline 2017-04-13
“The NetFPGA SUME is an FPGA-based PCI Express board with I/O capabilities for 10 and 100 Gbps operation, an x8 gen3 PCIe adapter card incorporating Xilinx’s Virtex-7 690T FPGA [600k gates]. It can be used as NIC, multiport switch, firewall, test/measurement environment, and more.” http://netfpga.org/site/#/systems/1netfpga-sume/details/
Our workshop this evening was for the much smaller and simpler Lattice iCE40 with 1k cells.
Nice to see everybody this evening, hope you enjoyed my workshop. I’ll be putting up a page shortly with my slides, notes, makefile, test program. All best, J.
