Hardware Podcasts

An Interview with Craig J Bishop

The Amp Hour · 2 Dec 2019 · 1h 28m · Episode 469

What this episode covers

Craig J. Bishop of Mango Dynamics discusses his custom FPGA-based handheld console, the Game Slab, which uses a Xilinx Zynq chip sourced from eBay. He details the engineering challenges of designing a 6-layer PCB with JLCPCB to support DDR3 memory and the decision to use Rust for embedded firmware across the STM32, A9 cores, and Linux user space. Bishop also explains his work at Deca Technologies, where he developed software for automated alignment and autorouting in wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WLCSP) to handle placement errors from pick-and-place machines.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Mango Dynamics, JLCPCB, Deca Technologies
Products
Game Slab
Chips
Xilinx Zynq, STM32, TI BQ24250
Tools
KiCad
Also
Rust, Spinal HDL, WLCSP

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