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2024-08-24 7:43 am
I'll like to dabble into hardware, driiver programming and arduino library programming. Really intrested in FPGA. Pleasure to meet you all
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2024-08-24 2:35 pm
@rzerobzerot Welcome to the forum. I am an old tube guy, but I did stumble upon FPGA a few months ago. Looks very cool, not sure my old brain is up to it, but I look forward to seeing what you might be able to teach us all about it.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
2024-08-25 10:44 pm
Hi @rzerobzerot,
I’ve never tried to program a FPGA robot controller, but I read about a paper that used genetic evolution techniques to create a controller for robot navigation. The genome was a configuration string for a Programmable Logic Array and the evaluation of fitness was the count of starting positions from which the robot was able to find a target. It was all done in simulation, so I’m not sure how applicable it would be to a physical robot. Still, it sounds interesting.
I also read about a researcher using FPGAs to implement an artificial neural network that used backpropagation of error in some creative parallel way…
What kind of things are you doing with FPGAs?
Tom
To err is human.
To really foul up, use a computer.
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2024-08-26 12:58 am
Well just basic communications protocols, SPI, UART and I2C. Also tried an 8bit simole microprocessor sometime
Getting materials has been hard though
2024-08-27 4:00 am
Welcome
Really intrested in FPGA
Very cool, I've never heard of this but you've got me interested. Would love to see any examples of applications you've come up with.