chclau

Thanks for your comment but this is a tutorial that people can actually try out, change, and learn from. All the sources are released at github. Why is it not fit for Show HN in your opinion?

Hi,

I was in the middle of putting my FPGA site in its own domain (fpgasite.net). Previously it was on a free domain from Wordpress.

I had some difficulties during the transition. It should be OK now. Thanks for letting me know, I hope you won't have any issues accessing the site now.

Yeps, as I said, I felt that I was doing less design and more system integration or "lego building". Besides, I had been doing that for many years and I thought a change was due. From my description it may seem that FPGA is monotonous... that was not my intention at all. For me, FPGA design is much more challenging and fun than board design never was. The downside of FPGA design is that human contact is much more limited.

You cannot really receive answers for your questions, because most of these things are subjective. You have to make your own way and make your own experience. Experience, after all, is the comb you get when you have no more hair ^^

I have been working for about 20 years. At the beginning of my career I had a choice of being in the ASIC side or board design and chose for board design because I thought (rightfully so, I learned later), that that was a more "physical" task. So I worked for about 10 years in board design and my typical work day was not typical at all. Some of the time researching parts. Some making schematics of circuits. Some making PCB layout. Some on debug and integration. Some time mastering scope and logic analyzer use. Some time talking my way thru all the people I have to receive products from/deliver to: SW engineers, FPGA engineers, mechanical engineers...

I made analog designs, digital designs, power supply designs... Then I started feeling more and more that I designed less and spent more time learning what the chip designers did, as chips incorporated more and more functions that once I did by myself.

So at the end I switched to FPGA design and today my typical workday is coding, debugging, simulating... 95% of the time on my computer. A good friend of mine coined a good phrase: FPGA engineers are SW engineers that disguise themselves as HW engineers. A good joke. But every joke has a bit of truth in it.

Are you aware that in Singapur, driver less cabs are already in service? And that many of the biggies have plans for autonomous cars within a few years?

I am sorry. Why do you say that this post is SPAM? Is an article I wrote since I saw several other articles about Deep Machine Learning and about how quite a few companies are using FPGAs for it, and I thought it would be nice for other developers to know.

My blog is for sharing knowledge on VHDL projects for FPGA, but I also share news on the field. I think that knowing where your field is going to is part of the needed knowledge to be a good designer.

There is a trend on integrating processor, FPGA, memory and high bandwidth pipes between them on a single package. Database heavy applications are among the first adopting these architectures, it can be that others will follow.

Good point. The sentence is confusing. When I wrote it I was thinking about expert systems, which really blossomed more or less during the 80s, and not about AI as a whole. I have changed that paragraph adding some of your comments. Thanks.

Well but even if you want to li... fantasize, you have to give some "credible" input as how you know that.

Dunno, that you were in a reptilian press conference and you heard that there. Something.

Even to li... fantasize, you have to know how.

Erm... the last video says that it is... 13000 years old? How do they know this?