I Took a Walk on the Dark Side...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Since many FPGA development tools aren't ready (or willing) to support ARM based processors, I decided it was time to take a look at the current Intel-based offerings in the laptop world and stumbled across the Dell XPS series of laptops that ship with Ubuntu 20.04 installed.
So enjoy my first impressions of my first PC in many moons and the FPGA boards I'd recommend purchasing with a laptop like this to get started as an FPGA developer/engineer.
As mentioned, find all of the installation tutorials I mentioned here: www.knitronics...
And all of the project tutorials I've created for these FPGA boards and more here: www.knitronics...
And the Dell XPS 13 I purchased: www.dell.com/e...
Specs of the XPS 13 I purchased:
Processor - 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1250U (12 MB cache, 10 cores, 12 threads, up to 4.70 GHz Turbo)
OS - Ubuntu® Linux® 20.04 LTS
Memory - 32 GB, LPDDR5, 5200 MHz, integrated, dual-channel
Storage - 1TB PCIe NVMe x2 Solid State Drive Onboard
Display - 13.4", FHD+ 1920 x 1200, 60Hz, Non-Touch, Anti-Glare, 500 nit, InfinityEdge (because if I wanted a touchscreen, I'd just get a tablet)
Color - Umber
Website: www.knitronics...
IG: @knitronics_lab
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Awesome video as always, Whitney. Your passion is really infectious.
This suggestion might be a bit more involved. But would you consider the possibility of making a video series, where you slowly build up 3 different FPGA focused Electronics home labs?
Going into detail of what specific tools would be required at an affordable price point for each stage from basics like usb oscilloscopes to more advanced FPGA dev boards and their use-cases etc. We the community could even pitch in or reach out to some of the major players to support the project.
1. Entry level lab
2. Mid level lab
3. Expert level lab (like Knitronics)
Of course there is a lot of overlap come to think of it I have never come across a detailed lab build guide on TH-cam or online focused on FPG Engineers or designers. This is discounting your Elektormagazine feature.
Another video series idea would be to explore the Open source EDA and FPGA ecosystem. A bit like Richard Feynman would.
Whitney I absolutely love your videos. I have a zedboard a friend loaned me and I just started watching your series on the Arty board. I have only one suggestion. When the intro is over (BTW, you've got great taste in music) please don't play music underneath your speaking. It's a distraction when trying to assimulate the information you're sharing. Don't know if you've done one on the zedboard but if not I sure hope you have plans to do so in the future. Thanks so much for the wonderful pedagogical tool you have blessed us with!
Thought that was going to be a Windows laptop and I had a sensible chuckle.
NEVER. Especially after the stupid stunt Windows pulled on my work computer with Python (which wasn’t even the main app I was using). 😂
@@knitronics Hey, I did what I could to help you with your Windows experience! Even if the work computer wasn't in rose gold. haha
just for the ports and I/O will would rather choose thinkpads with linux, great video anyways
Very nice video and overview
cool video
I love to use AMD xilinx kria KR260 for utilise ability to quick read and execute sensor data.
Are u interested in analog and RF IC design ??
I hope they release a Mac or at least Linux/ARM version of Vivado some day. For now, I run it on an Intel Linux machine and connect from an M1 Mac using NoMachine.
I’m considering a custom build setup to remote into as well. But I really love the VM option because it’s so easy to set them up on external hard drives and have various versions of Ubuntu available. Because in my adventures in Linux, I’ve learned that sometimes it’s just easier to match the Linux version to whatever tool/IDE you’re trying to get working haha
@@knitronics I hear ya. Our IT dept. manages my Linux machine which is a RHEL machine and they are pushing to upgrade to RHEL 9, but my project is still built in Vivado 2022.1 so I have to fight to stay at RHEL 8 for now.
Cool vid love the laptop, What do you think of the Altera Terasic boards?
I haven’t personally used those particular boards yet.
They're great. It was such a shame that they stopped selling the Atlas board. It was such a good deal and always my recommendation for a beginner. Their SoCs are really difficult to find examples/documentation for as soon as you want to go anywhere beyond the basic totorials though, so I generally prefer xilinx for anyone who wants verbose documenation/support.
Cool video!