Re: [tlug] Call for presenters Apr 19th

[Bernie Innocenti <bernie@example.com>]

If it wasn't clear from my previous mail, I'm expressing strong interest 
in your proposed talk :-)

Also, in case someone is interested in vintage-computing, I recently 
started restoring Amigas and other Commodore machines as an excuse to 
gain experience with electronics and PCB rework. I won't have time to 
prepare a proper slide deck, but I have detailed photos of all the 
boards I repaired.

Here's a Mastodon thread from my first attempt a few months ago:
  https://mstdn.io/@codewiz/113785747430389210


On 2025/04/01 15:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On 2025/04/01 11:51, Yimin Gu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's less Linux but I could talk about recent updates and my
> > experience about open-source toolchains for FPGAs (OpenXC7 for Xilinx
> > 7-series, PrjTrellis for Lattice ECP5, etc), if anyone's interested.
> > There are some FPGA boards I can bring to show on-site.
> > Recently, PCIe endpoint using Xilinx hardcore, as well as open-source
> > DDR3 controller have been deployed on Xilinx 7-series FPGAs with the
> > open-source toolchain.
>
> I've always wanted to get into VHDL / Verilog, but I'm at the stage 
> where I never found a small project to get me started.
>
> I considered buying a MEGA65, a modern successor of the Commodore 64 
> which is entirely FPGA defined and open source: https://mega65.org/
>
> It's not cheap though.
>
>
> > best regards,
> > Yimin Gu
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM Edward Middleton
> > <edward.middleton@example.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are have a technical meeting planned for Saturday 19th of April, If
> > > you would like to present something please get in contact so I can add
> > > you to the agenda.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Edward


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