nullobject

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Hello. I'm a software developer living in Byron Bay, Australia.

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Comment · 5 years ago

Sure. I wrote the Tecmo and CAVE cores for MiSTer, and it's a long road to a complex core like an arcade game, or in this case, a ray tracer.

If you're just starting out, then you've gotta begin with the basics: blinking a few LEDs, etc. From there you can progress to more and more complex circuits as you learn to code in VHDL or Verilog.

I'd recommend buying a couple of 2nd hand books on VHDL and/or Verilog to get familiar with the syntax. There are some good free books too:

http://freerangefactory.org/pdf/df344hdh4h8kjfh3500ft2/free_...

This little book is great if you're interested in how to build video game hardware for FPGA:

https://gumroad.com/8bitworkshop#JGZkq

I also have a repo of examples I wrote for the DE10 Nano:

https://github.com/nullobject/de10-nano-examples

Comment · 6 years ago

Nice. I was just looking through your ray-tracer code :)

It looks like a really nice abstraction. I've been working on the MiSTer project, writing arcade cores for the Cyclone V in VHDL.

I've made a huge effort to keep things clean, but SpinalHDL could be a great way to tame some of the code.

Will start blinking some LEDs and see how it goes...

Comment · 6 years ago

This project looks amazing.

For folks writing in SpinalHDL, is anyone using Quartus? Or are you using a fully open-source toolchain? i.e. What is your workflow?

I'm interested in trying out SpinalHDL, but I'm not sure how to integrate it into what I'm doing.

Comment · 6 years ago

Running 20.04 on X1E G2 without issues here.

Comment · 6 years ago

I just switched to the X1E after using Mac for the past 20 years. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.

It's an amazing machine: excellent build quality, screen, and variety of ports. The only thing I can complain about is the battery life, which isn't great.

Comment · 6 years ago

I recentely ordered the X1 Extreme v2 and I am rediculously excited. It's my first non-Apple laptop in 20 years.

Comment · 6 years ago

Regolith is what pulled me away from MacOS. Very minimal, elegant, and super productive.

Comment · 6 years ago

This looks great, looking forward to reading it.