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Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
The HBM stacks are on-package for these parts, so you don't have to use any external I/O to interface with them.
You end up with a similar challenge accessing that much bandwidth internally from your FPGA logic though, it looks like the Xilinx HBM IP presents a set of 16 or 32 separate AXI interfaces, each of which gives you about 14.4GB/s of bandwidth (https://docs.amd.com/r/en-US/pg276-axi-hbm/Introduction).
Comment · 5 years ago
PTP is a great choice when you need your time-sync to leave the software domain, for instance, locking an external PLL for frequency and phase aligned clocks.
PTP enabled MAC's and PHY's usually have a dedicated hardware output for a PPS (pulse-per-second) or faster clock, generated directly from the hardware PTP counters.
In the video world, we get great results synchronizing software events with NTP, but whenever you jump to a physical interface (DisplayPort, HDMI, SDI, etc.), NTP-based clocks are far too jittery.
I've seen some work using the PTP hardware in the MAC with the NTP protocol, a sort of hybrid approach, but don't have any first hand experience.
Comment · 5 years ago
Alcorn McBride Inc. | Full-Time | Orlando, FL | Onsite | http://www.alcorn.com
Software Engineer, Design Engineer
We develop audio, video, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions.
The hardware (down to the PCB), firmware (from FPGA's to RTOS's), and software (C++/Qt) are all engineered in house. We're looking to hire great engineers with any mix of experience in FPGA's, embedded systems, and desktop application development.
It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our products, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing".
If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile. For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listings on our website: https://alcorn.com/about/careers/
Comment · 7 years ago
Alcorn McBride Inc. | Full-Time | Orlando, FL | Onsite | http://www.alcorn.com
Software Engineer, Design Engineer
We develop audio, video, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions.
The hardware (down to the PCB), firmware (from FPGA's to RTOS's), and software (C++/Qt) are all engineered in house. We're looking to hire great engineers with any mix of experience in FPGA's, embedded systems, and desktop application development.
It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our products, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing".
If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile. For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listings on our website: https://alcorn.com/about/careers/
Comment · 9 years ago
Cover letters might get lost in the HR departments of larger companies, but they're incredibly useful to me when sorting through applications at a small company.
Especially for entry level positions, a well-written cover letter is a much stronger positive signal than a bullet point style resume. Far too often the resume is a regurgitation of university class projects and career center templates.
Think of it like a pre-interview, but you get to choose the questions. Since most entry-level resumes look the same, this is your chance to explain why you stand out. (a passion for the industry, strong open-source contributions, etc)
If the position isn't entry level, my advice is the same. Use the opportunity to stand out and score the interview ( which is where the actual decisions will get made). At a small company, someone will read it.
Comment · 10 years ago
Given that the Amazon cloud is such a huge consumer of Intel's X86 processors, even using Amazon-tailored Xeon's, it's surprising that Amazon chose Xilinx over the Intel-owned Altera.
These Xilinx 16nm Virtex FPGA's are beasts, but Altera has some compelling choices as well. Perhaps some of the hardened IP in the Xilinx tipped the scales, such as the H.265 encode/decode, 100G EMAC, PCI-E Gen 4?
Comment · 11 years ago
You aren't alone.
The 840 and 840EVO were Samsung's first drives using 19nm planar TLC flash. With TLC flash they were storing 4 bits per flash cell, which at that small process size gave all sorts of trouble with old, stale data. It was a pretty well documented problem: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8997/samsung-releases-statemen...
The newer Samsung TLC drives use V-NAND, which supposedly has lower cell-to-cell interference due to the larger process size and 3D structure: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/html/pr...
Samsung has some firmware updates and software utilities that should be able to restore the performance of your SSD's.
Comment · 12 years ago
Alcorn McBride | Full-Time | Orlando, FL | http://www.alcorn.com
Software Engineer
We develop audio, video, lighting, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions. We're looking for someone to develop and maintain MS Windows Based GUI applications for the programming, configuration, and control of our hardware products used in the themed entertainment industry.
It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our equipment, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing". You'll wear a lot of hats, but your primary focus will be on our desktop software applications. If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile.
For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listing on our website: http://alcorn.com/alcorn-mcbride-jobs/
Comment · 12 years ago
Many of the same manufacturers supporting CarPlay have already committed to Android support as well (http://www.openautoalliance.net/#press). I would imagine that Apple building on top of QNX allows for the car manufacturers to standardize on a single hardware platform across all mobile integrations.
I doubt that Apple could announce so many automotive partners if the system was completely Apple proprietary, due to both time and flexibility.
Comment · 14 years ago
Alcorn McBride | Full-Time | Orlando, FL
Hardware/Software Design Engineer
We develop audio, video, lighting, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions. We're looking for someone with general knowledge of Digital Video technology and Video Compression. RTOS/Embedded software experience is ideal.
It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our equipment, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing". You'll wear a lot of hats(today I'm bouncing between debugging a PC application and working on an FPGA design), but your primary focus will be on our video products. If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile.
For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listing on our website: http://alcorn.com/alcorn-mcbride-jobs/
Comment · 14 years ago
Alcorn McBride | Full-Time | Orlando, FL
Hardware/Software Design Engineer
We develop audio, video, lighting, and show control systems for themed entertainment. You'll find our equipment in the world's biggest theme parks, museums, and attractions. We're looking for someone with general knowledge of Digital Video technology and Video Compression. RTOS/Embedded software experience is ideal.
It's amazing to see the things our creative customers do with our equipment, and it's exciting to work on next-generation tools and hardware to enable our customers to create the "next-big-thing". You'll wear a lot of hats(today I'm bouncing between debugging a PC application and working on an FPGA design), but your primary focus will be on our video products. If you'd like to chat about it, my contact info is in my profile.
For more details and to apply, you can check out the job listing on our website: http://alcorn.com/alcorn-mcbride-jobs/
Trying to shrink that community seems like a pretty obvious error. The closest thing the Altera world ever had were the old Altera user forums, which were a gold-mine. Intel shut them down immediately on acquisition. I guess it's AMD's turn.