FPGA OpenSource Hardware event London March 2019

Folknology 2019-02-22 09:52:41 UTC #1

Hi Folks just a heads up on an event I have been arranging as part of the OSHUG (Open Source Hardware Users Group) monthly meetups and talks.

On 21st March at BCS in London we are hosting an FPGA themed evening with talks and get together. I will be providing a talk about the current state of Open Source FPGA hardware, along with @daveshah who will be talking about the tools side in particular Symbiflow, NextPNR/Trellis along with the new ECP 5 chip family support that we are all so excited about.

It would be great to add others from the myStorm community to talk or just come along and meetup as it promises to be a good evening with some really interesting folk.

If you are working on FPGA projects using Opensource hardware (like BlackIce) and want to share that with others, please let me know either in this thread or DM me directly, we would consider full talks or lightning talks at this point, even if you just want to show us what your working on/building,.

I will post event details soon when the registration page is up, in the meantime let us know your thoughts..

BigEd 2019-02-24 09:58:59 UTC #2

That's a Thursday evening in London? I won't be able to make it, but it'll be worth mentioning on some forums - stardot, 6502, eevblog, retrobrewcomputers. (I'd be interested to hear about other relevant forums too!)

Folknology 2019-02-27 09:19:12 UTC #3

Thanks @BigEd good idea, just bumping this thread as we have to finalise who wants to speak about FPGAs or share an FPGA project on the 21st as I need to solidify the agenda before announcement...

Folknology 2019-03-12 13:39:33 UTC #4

The event registration page is now live if you are interested in attending:

Looking forward to seeing everyone there..

lawrie 2019-03-23 18:51:02 UTC #5

The slides were very interesting and @daveshah's achievement of getting Linux running with VexRiscv and litex-linux-riscv is brilliant. And then getting it to access the internet and self-host the open source FPGA tools is amazing.

Folknology 2019-03-23 19:17:05 UTC #6

Indeed it's a really important milestone to get both Linux running and getting the open design to eat it's own dog food, it's 'OpenSource all the way down'!