[57north-discuss] [b.scharlau at abdn.ac.uk: Tech Meetup this Wednesday is all about FPGA (field-programmable gate array)]

[Tony Shannon]

Shame in away for this, as of interest.  Are the talks still recorded?

Regards
Tony

On 13 Apr 2014, at 16:47, "Iain R. Learmonth" <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:

> This looks fun.
>
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> Subject: Tech Meetup this Wednesday is all about FPGA (field-programmable gate array)
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> Come along to Techmeetup this Wednesday at 6:30pm in the north foyer of
> the Meston Building where we will have a talk from Robert McWilliam. He
> will provide an intro to FPGA design.
>
> https://twitter.com/ormiret
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> "I'll give a vague and high level run through of how field-programmable
> gate arrays work and the design process to make them do something useful
> focusing on the major differences compared to software development. This
> will flag up some of advantages and disadvantages of using FPGAs. I'll
> then go from clean slate to blinking LEDs on a real board (the "Hello
> world!" of hardware projects) and have a look at a more complicated
> project."
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> Bruce
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