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[Pietro89]

Hi, my name is Pietro Pizzo and in our company we develop test stands for hydraulic systems. We are starting using MCC products, in particular acquisition boards like the USB-231, USB1608 and USB-1808. I hope this forum can support us.

Edited March 20 by Pietro89

[pdw]

Hi everyone. My name’s Paul and I'm based in the UK. I work in a small company doing industrial research with FPGAs. Started off as an absolute beginner a few years ago — trying to drive the serial UART on an Arty S7 — but now I’m trying to build more complex things with a Genesys 2 board. I use the Clash language quite a lot.

Mostly I’m self-taught, so I’m here hoping that next time I’m trying to make sense of a new topic, I can post a question and people can share some of their advice and experiences.

Looking forward to meeting people.

Edited April 5 by pdw
Fix: UARTs -> UART

[kerryn]

Hi All,

My name is Kerryn,

I'm more of a c-programmer, but understand that FPGA is what I need for anything like an encoder input and other high speed hardware bits you want to offload from the main CPU, so I'm interested in it for things like that.

I'm starting my FPGA learning experience with the Cmod A7-35   with bare VHDL.

So far so good,  once you can flash an LED there's not too much holding you back from there,  I seem to be OK on the VHDL side of things so far.

I guess once I get my confidence up with that I'll try adding Microblaze and get VHDL & Mircorblaze to share some registers or virual I/O.

At the moment I'm getting stuck on storing my program to the startup flash, and a few other bits and bobs owing to using the latest tool chain rather than the documented tool chain so I'll probably post some questions about that.    I'm hoping the FPGA experience isn't like what I see with the PLC guys where they have an entire virtual machine for every version of compiler tool-chain dating back years.

bye for now

KB

 

 

 

[CANdoo]

Hi

My name is Dom and I am a systems engineer for a Hydraulics company specialising in off road vehicle production and curious as to whether Digilent can communicate via CANbus over Ethernet.

[mjc43]

Hi I'm a retired IT salesman tinkering with radio control to improve the realism of my 1/6 Tiger tank

[Boneoh]

I'm Pete, a retired IT guy with a broad background in both hardware and software. 

I make fun videos using a hybrid hardware and software approach.  Boneoh.art

Most of my video gear is here. I have a few custom programs on the Mac using metal filters for video manipulation and synchronized playback of multiple videos.

I'm very interested in the Zybo Z7 HDMI Input/Output Demo to get started in FPGA development. My goal is to get the demo going and make a few minor changes to allow real time video processing.

I have two goals for video processing:

1. Capture a freeze-frame into a buffer and control when it is displayed. Toggle between the live feed and freeze frame output.

2. Add custom algorithms for live video manipulation. Some are simple like Blur and Fade. Others are more glitchy. 

I think this will be a fun project, but the learning curve looks pretty steep. I'm not planning on building anything from scratch, just learning the demo and changing it a little at a time to reach my goal. 

I haven't yet bought a board, it's a bit of a luxury right now, even though the price seems very reasonable.

What do you think? I appreciate any thoughts and feedback!

Regards,

Pete 

[Jonathan Poore]

I'm Jonathan, a test technician in the cable manufacturing realm. I repair, maintain, and upgrade test equipment, a large portion of which is very much legacy equipment from as far back as the mid 80s. A decent amount uses MC/Digilent hardware and software, so I'm hoping to learn some things here.

[MSH]

Hello!
I'm Marcus, I work in electronics production in close conjunction with R&D. I'm more mechanically minded and not so well versed in signals and code, but nonetheless do testing using the Analog Discovery 2 amongst other tools. Figured I might have some questions around the Waveforms software and decided to sign up. :)