Quite recently I purchased both Samsung and Acer's C7 Chromebooks for use as mobile LINUX and FPGA development platforms, using the standard FPGA development tools
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This is a blog about our everyday exploits in all aspects of everything. From science, art, computing, engineering, playing badminton to even playing computer games. Just about everything!
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Chromebook LINUX for EDA Development, Why don't you believe me when I say we're twins
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Saturday, 30 March 2013
Category A Day In The Life of A Hobbyist Design Engineer
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Beowulf Cluster On a Chip, Oh Simple Thing Where Have You Gone?
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Sunday, 16 December 2012
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As computing unofficially transitions from the multi-core to many-core computing era, I can't help but think about Beowulf clusters on a chip and a few tear jerking lines of the lyrics to the song "Somewhere only we know" by Keane come to mind
A Backlight LED Current Limiting Resistor, I Don't Think So
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Monday, 03 December 2012
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I have been looking at some backlight LED schematics recently with the intention of "gaining inspiration" from the designs of others when I noticed that some designs use a current limiting resistor between a TFT-LCD display's anode and cathode backlight pins.
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Interfacing to an i80 System TFT-LCD Display, When Size Really Doesn't Matter
by Ben
Saturday, 24 November 2012
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I have recently purchased some small TFT-LCD displays, which vary in size from about 2.0" to 4.3", to interface to FPGAs in general and the DE0-Nano in particular.
Parallel Computing Vs Mountain Biking, I Know Which One I Prefer
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Sunday, 11 November 2012
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Thought I would have a quiet day today, parallel programming, considering the soul breaking, near death, mountain biking experience I had yesterday, but more about that later!
Tags: Mountain Biking, Parallel Computing, FPGA, OpenCL, Parallella, Epiphany processor Read More