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Stories from Supercon 2019

The Amp Hour · 18 Nov 2019 · 1h 37m · Episode 467

What this episode covers

Jereon “Sprite_tm” Domburg, Sylvain “tnt” Munaut, and Matt Venn discuss open-source FPGA toolchains and hardware at Supercon 2019. Sprite_tm details his Supercon 2019 badge, which uses a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to host two Pico RV32 RISC-V cores and a PIC-16, enabling a reconfigurable system via USB mass storage and cartridges. Sylvain Munaut explains his work on the badge's DFU bootloader and Osmocom's use of ECP5 FPGAs for software-defined radio, including sniffing CPRI links. Matt Venn describes his role at Symbiotic EDA, focusing on formal verification tools for safety-critical systems like particle accelerators.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Lattice, Giga Devices, Expressive, Osmocom, Symbiotic EDA
Chips
ECP5, Pico RV32, RISC-V, PIC-16, ESP32, ESP32-S2
Tools
Yosys, Project IceStorm, Verilator, GTKWave
Also
CPRI

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