Parallelpoints · A personal notebook
Writing about engineering, computing and the details that make things work.
VHDL has two types of what-would-normally-be-called-variables: signals, which must be used for inter-process communication, and can be used for process-local storage variables which are local to a process. (there’s …
@boldport asked: What are your #FPGA design space exploration techniques? which he expands upon: “Design space exploration” is the process of trying out different settings and design methods for achieving …
@boldport recently asked on Twitter what version control software people used on their FPGA designs. I replied that I use git at home and Subversion at work. The reasons why take a bit more than 140 characters, so …
A few weeks ago I read a blog post by the illustrious MS researcher Prof. Satnam Singh. He writes about his Kiwi project which he describes as “[trying] to civilise hardware design” - as compared to the …
And so, finally, after all that setup, some code to read PGM files and how to make use of it. Next stage will be writing some files! As always, the code can be found on github