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[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 hours ago

DDR3 RAM and local availability.

We have 3 options here. Altera SoCs (I hate Quartus with a burning passion), Xilinx FPGAs/SoCs and small Lattice FPGAs and Tang Nano 9k.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The only two FPGAs I can buy that has a reasonable price and has the specs I want are both Xilinx FPGAs (Arty S7-50, Arty A7-100T).

I kinda have to use Vivado. Even though I hate bloated software like Vivado I think it would help me in the industry to know them.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip -5 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

It's kinda racist not gonna lie. Imagine if I forked Linux, did not change a thing, name it something else and then say "the old Linux was made by dirty Europeans this is our alternative".

EuroOffice is a disrespect but apart from that I don't think it's gonna be anything more than a clone.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 14 points 17 hours ago

You money is sent to Israel

 

Hi everyone. I asked a question here before about my senior design project where I was planning on creating a RISC-V cpu.

I started the project and currently using iverilog, vpp and GTKWave (can also add yosys here but not for now) for development. And I plan on using Vivado for final implementation and IP's.

Is this a good way of doing things? Should I just use Vivado? I feel like my approach is easier and lets me focus on the logic.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago

You convinced me with the last line. This is so rare nowadays. Switching today for sure. Thanks.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago (15 children)

I've been using OnlyOffice for a while now but I don't really trust them because of their AI integration and awful plugins. How good is LibreOffice compared to OnlyOffice? Is the UI still awful? Did the devs said anything about AI?

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I mean with those prices I don't think anyone can eat that much meat lol

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 0 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Meat eating is not the bad part here. It's the manufacturing of that said meat. We are animals and eating other animals is natural. Again the issue how we treat them and feed them.

Also I meant "no big deal" for the person. As in health benefits or dangers. Of course meat industry is awful.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

The issue is we humans are awful at drawing that line. You eat meat too much no big deal. Drink coffee 3 times a day it's fine. Spend too much money on ethical chocolate it's fine. But AI is different.

Eventually there is a high probability of that moderate usage turning into frequent usage. If everyone used AI responsibly (like an advanced Google and sometimes grammar checks) it would be a great tool. But %99.9 people does not do that.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Does not matter how he uses AI. It is a fundamentally unethical technology. Environmental damage, job losses, stealing work from open source programmers and artists, poisoning the young generations mind etc.

I don't give a fuck how Linus uses AI. Linux was here before LLMs were a thing and it can continue to be like this. Linus chose the easy way and disregarded every single negative aspect of it and decided to call it 'just a tool". The exact same excuse every single cuckcoder uses btw.

[–] ducktumn@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Can we as the tech community stop dick riding Linus and accept that he sold out to big tech?

 

Hi everyone. I'm a senior Computer Engineering student and my girlfriend is a senior Mechanical Engineering student.

She is caring, cute, clever and really thoughtful. I love everything about her. But the one thing that always bugs me out is the amount of AI she uses.

When we met 2 years ago the first topic we talked about was about AI and ever since that day I always mentioned her the advancements and dangers of AI. I said how there can't be ethical AI and any use of it is harmful.

She agrees with me every time and says she will decrease her usage but at the end she uses it still. Projects, reports, homeworks all go through the LLM. She shows me her work and I can't congratulate her without forcing myself because I know it's AI.

She has diagnosed ADHD and I think this might be one of the reasons but I still don't understand. She sometimes spends hours working. If she had spent that time with pen and paper she could've reached the same conclusions she did with AI but with more understanding of her work.

I don't want to upset her but also seeing someone this close to me do this is saddening to me. What should I do? Should I just ignore it?

 

Hi everyone. This is my first post on Lemmy. I'm a senior Computer Engineering student. And I'm working on my senior design project with my friends.

  • BACKGROUND INFO

My friends have basically near 0 hardware knowledge but are willing to work. I have more experience with computer architecture and digital electronics but still I never made something as complex as this before.

The project is a comparison between hardware solutions to image processing. We will implement 3 types of hardware to process live (or pre recorded) video and output it to vga. Then compare their efficieny.

First one is a CPU core (will implement in system verilog which I have some experience with thank god). It will support RV32IM instructions and my friend will write an assembly program to control it.

Second one is an extension to the first CPU core.

Third one will be a specialized hardware for this purpose.

We have 2.5 months to complete half of the project and the other parts will be completed in next semester.

  • ACTUAL QUESTION

So my plan is to create the CPU and measure its performance in these months and leave the other parts for next semester.

I'm planning on creating a 5 stage pipelined in order CPU. I also want to use wishbone since it's easier. But I have a problem.

First is the fact that videos take up a lot of space and we don't have enough RAM (Basys 3). We can buy an Arty S7 50 for it's DDR3 but the controller for it is AXI. I don't have time to learn AXI and I could not find any open source bridges that would work between that and WB B3.

One other option might be to send and process the video from an external camera or my laptop. But how can I make this work? USB is not nearly fast enough for 640x480 24fps.

Note: We won't use any AI in this project. So the time is more crucial.

Any tips? Should we buy a new board or will streaming work? Maybe we can use ethernet port? Idk.

Thanks.

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