Hi Casperites, Thanks to those of you that filled in the Doodle poll. We have a venue and a date! Please see details below and diarise:
*Workshop:* Hardware/Yellow Block Porting Workshop *Workshop Leadership Team: *Jack Hickish (University of Berkeley), Jonathon Kocz (Caltech) (TBC), Wesley New (SARAO), Adam Isaacson (SARAO) and Amish Patel (SARAO) *Workshop Description: * 1) You bring your completed firmware with hardware and we will help you integrate it into the new CASPER toolflow, so that you can target your hardware with the new CASPER toolflow 2) We will show you how take existing firmware and create a yellow block. 3) Workshop will be run informally and will be hands on *Workshop Prerequisites: * I would suggest, at least, having run through tutorial 1 and tutorial 2 to familiarise yourself with Ubuntu, Matlab and Vivado- see tutorial section under http://casper-dsp.org (new unofficially released CASPER site) *Venue:* South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), Cape Town, Auditorium *Date: *30 July - 3rd August 2018 *Time:* 9am - 5pm *Workshop Cost:* Free :) *Accommodation:* I suggest City Lodge Pinelands ( https://clhg.com/hotels/155/City-Lodge-Hotel-Pinelands-Cape-Town <https://clhg.com/hotels/155/City-Lodge-Hotel-Pinelands-Cape-Town>) *Directions:* https://www.saao.ac.za/contact-2/ (Cape Town) - just between the River Club and Valkenburg hospital here in the suburb of Observatory. Security will direct you to the auditorium after you have signed in. *What to Bring:* Your lap top/desktop, target hardware, ethernet switches, cables and firmware. We will cater for the food and venue hire. There is internet availability (WiFi) at the venue. *RSVP:* Please respond to my email ([email protected]) and not the whole CASPER emailing group, if you will be attending by no later than the *31 March 2018*, thanks. If you reply, it would also be great if you could give some background as to what software tools you are currently using and what you want to achieve through this workshop. I would like to know whether you are a beginner or advanced. All further communication will be sent out to participants. I hope to see you there! Kind regards, Adam Isaacson SARAO DBE Hardware Manager Cell: (+27) 825639602 Tel: (+27) 215067300 email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
