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josef k.
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@fuzziphy @samsoniuk If you want to really get wild: there’s decommissioned Microsoft stratix 10 cards floating around which are essentially the same design as the Intel PAC D5005 board, so you can build an OpenFPGA Stack BSP/OneAPI ASP & use the 2025.0 OneAPI stack for SYCL FPGA acceleration
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wow! lots of people talking about Alibaba's cheap and powerful FPGA boards, mentioned by some random digital influencer yesterday... amazing, but we already had same cheap boards from Azure on Ebay, 5 years ago! 🤣
Marcelo Samsoniuk@samsoniuk
wow! the board does not smoked! 😅 #live #hacking of the MSFT Storey Peak #FPGA board from ebay! @carlosedp @lucasteske twitch.tv/racerxdl
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@fuzziphy @samsoniuk Try the Altera Self-Service License site. You can get Quartus Pro free for noncommercial use for 3-month intervals
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@samsoniuk I learned yesterday that the Alibaba one works with the free version of Vivado. MSFTs looks like a custom Stratix V that won’t work with Quarts lite
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@gobeige @lauriewired Very cool! Hope to learn more about it someday. I’ve been thinking about bodging out I/O on this board as well as the other Baidu Kintex7 board that’s been floating around.
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@iosefkay @lauriewired I do have it but it is not ready yet. The board needs to be modified to make it work. Here is the working version.
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The hardware in old Chinese cloud accelerator cards never fails to impress me.
If you go on Chinese ebay (idlefish) you can get a Xilinix UltraScale FPGA for ~$50 USD.
For perspective, the same raw chip is currently ~$2,100 on Mouser.
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@gobeige @lauriewired Very cool, do you have any documentation on this?
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@lauriewired I created an extension board specifically to utilise the available io and to route it to two pmods - some modifications required.
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I think you have to go into hardware now if you actually want a job, as the software industry seems to be slowly realizing that computers use electricity and that food does not come from the grocery store.
"D." Fool@FoolOfD
"Jobs in biology"
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Have you tried lowering your standards even further and letting society and everyone around you grind your ego down to dust until there's nothing left? You should start a gratitude journal the real problem is you're very entitled and not grateful enough
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it's so awesome how all our software has gotten so much faster, more stable, packed with useful features ever since vibe-coding revolutionized programming
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The demand for GPUs and as a derivative of that High Bandwidth Memory & 800G+ networking will be half of what it currently it is today.
I know something you don’t. Trust me.
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A father gorilla and his baby meet for the first time
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@lukevassallo95 @ico_TC Yeah, I have been able to program it with a couple simple projects using Vivado 2025.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 and an old DLC9LP Xilinx programmer.
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I received a shipment of 20 Kintex7 480T FPGA boards with 4 GB of DDR3. The goal is to put them online for remote usage with the open source FPGA tool chain openXC7.
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@HSVSphere Systemd would be fine if it was only init. The problem is that it’s a growing monolith that’s tightly coupled with the Linux kernel, so it’s pretty bad for software portability.
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Replies to this post show how nobody on xitter actually understands what makes a system good. Systemd has been one of _the_ best things to happen to Linux. I wish it supported the BSDs too, but we need something better and universal, which is still possible.
Uros Popovic@popovicu94
Nothing starts a Linux holy war faster than systemd. It's the debate over PID 1, the "parent of all processes." The choice of init defines a large part of the philosophy of your distro. You have two main camps: systemd: An integrated system manager. It handles services, logging (journald), networking (networkd), devices (udev), and more. Minimalist (runit, OpenRC, etc.): A simpler service supervisor. It does fewer jobs: start, stop, and monitor other processes. It relies on ther tools for logging, etc. But forget features for a second. Let's talk about building from scratch. To build runit, you just need a standard C library. It's tiny, simple, and has almost zero dependencies. To build systemd, you need a larger part of the modern Linux stack. It's not a single tool; it's an entire ecosystem you buy into. That's the real trade-off: powerful integration vs. simple, composable modularity. What's your pick? And have you ever tried building a minimal system from scratch?
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@dessyfreakaz @aprolixian @nisten I was just joking, but there’s a lot more overhead in there than you’d think. Reducing code size by thousands of lines has a lot of benefits for debugging analysis & optimization when you’re trying to squeeze the most you can out of an MCU(e.g. multi-sensor logging systems)
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@aprolixian @nisten Yea I’m just teasin’ lol. You only need to drop down to the LL stuff when timing schedules are tight.
Also, every other embedded dev I have ever met uses a Windows PC in some capacity. You can tell that a lot of these guys have never done any real work in the field.
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@aprolixian @nisten A real burn would be to rag on u for using the HAL on UART & DMA instead of accessing the registers like a man using the LL macros.😉
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Baby elephants come equipped with a trunk but they don't automatically know how to use it, so they always go through a phase of discovering they have a trunk and trying to figure out how it works
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@splinedrive As an embedded engineer who’s seen some of the absolute worst C code ever deployed, I am willing to entertain embedded Rust. It’s not my first choice but hell is other people’s code & if compile-time guardrails can help me avoid headaches, I’ll take it.
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People who want to work in embedded should just use C – with the knowledge that's required. Otherwise, they can go play around with Java. Or JavaScript.
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That's my opinion: People program in Rust because they're afraid of computer technology. They think the compiler will make up for the knowledge they don't have, instead of dealing with the fundamentals themselves.
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