Microchip Releases Free VectorBlox 3.0 SDK
Microchip upgrades its VectorBlox Accelerator SDK with new capabilities to improve AI inference on PolarFire FPGA and SoC devices.
FPGA
Adiuvo’s $50 Forgix Board Crams RP2354 Microcontroller and Trion T8 FPGA into a 28-pin Teensy Footprint
Hot on the heels of Adiuvo’s introduction of the Explorer FPGA board (see “Need a low-cost FPGA dev board? Check out Adiuvo Engineering’s $99 Explorer board with an AMD Artix UltraScale+ FPGA”), th…
RISCBoy RISC-V homebrew portable game console
Portable games console, designed from scratch: CPU, graphics, PCB, and the kitchen sink - Wren6991/RISCBoy
Github vs. Raspberry Pi in a Closet — Zephyr Podcast #043
/dev on Zephyr? fan control, LLVM in CI, Pouch, Wi-Fi, FPGAs, ... and a Raspberry Pi in a closet: another packed week of Zephyr.
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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like...
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We’re One Step Closer to Drag-and-Drop Off-the-Shelf Chiplet-Based Design
Close your eyes and imagine the following scene. No. That won’t work, will it? Let’s try doing this a different way. Keep your eyes open and imagine they’re closed. Visualize a future timeline wher…
Typelevel Traverses Europe
I am excited to announce three upcoming, in-person meetups across Europe this October! These events are a wonderful opportunity to connect with other functional programming enthusiasts in a safe, supportive space. We welcome current and aspiring Typelevel users, contributors, and anyone curious t...
Finding Hardware Bugs - Computerphile
When you're setting your hardware design out using automated tools is essential, but what if the tools themselves have bugs in them? John P Wickerson is based at Imperial College London. The paper that John's team wrote about the work: https://johnwickerson.github.io/papers/fuzzing_pnr.pdf An a...
What we've been reading in April (2025)
Here are the articles, videos, and tools we’ve been excited about in April 2025.
Diving into JTAG — Boundary Scan (Part 3)
This article dives into JTAG Boundary Scan, a method for testing interconnects on PCBs and internal IC sub-blocks.
Diving into JTAG — Debugging (Part 2)
This article explores debugging microcontrollers using JTAG, with a special focus on the ARM Cortex-M architecture and the STM32F407VG microcontroller.
What we've been reading in January (2022)
Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this January.
Augment assembly work planning with digital human simulations
Learn how Unity is supporting the MOSIM research project to simulate and analyze complex, realistic human motions for a range of manufacturing use cases.
Fix Bugs and Secure Firmware with the MPU
Step-by-step examples of how to use the ARM Cortex M Memory Protection Unit (MPU) to improve firmware security and stability.