Dear Sebastien, this workshop is very interesting and I'd like to attend together with my collegue Sebastian Sumpf. However, for us, the travel from Dresden to Paris is quite long so that we would like to stay in Paris over the weekend (arriving at Friday and leaving on Monday or Tuesday - depending on when cheap flights are available). I've also told Matthias Alles about your workshop and he would like to come over as well and use your workshop as opportunity to meet us. My question is: Is it possible for you or /tmp/lab to accommodate us over the weekend? This would be extremely cool as we could use the time to tinker with our projects, Matthias could learn about Milkymist, and Sebastian (who is new to FPGAs) could get a pretty intensive introduction into the FPGA universe. ;-)
Best regards Norman Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote: > FPGA Workshop 4: Behind the Scenes > ======================= > > DESCRIPTION > In the previous workshops, we have seen that FPGAs can emulate any logic > circuit without moving (mechanical) parts. > > FPGAs are however not magic nor mystical devices and this workshop will shed > light on how they work internally. After theoretical explanations on their > functioning, we will program them very close to the "bare silicon" by > configuring manually each logic element on the chip, without any Verilog or > schematics. > > This will give you a better understanding of the challenges involved with > writing open source programming tools, reverse engineering existing FPGA > designs, injecting backdoors into FPGA bitstreams, and squeezing the most > performance out of an FPGA chip. > > PREREQUISITES > For the hands-on part: > * Bring your laptop > * IMPORTANT: Install Xilinx ISE. The installation takes a long time that we > cannot waste during the workshop. > * Bring a Xilinx FPGA board such as the Avnet Spartan-3A starter kit used in > previous workshops. > * The board must have a Xilinx FPGA. Boards with non-Xilinx chips cannot be > used. > * Your board must have at least 2 pushbuttons and 2 LEDs. > * Bring any required programming (JTAG) cable and try to make sure that it > works (driver installed etc.) before coming. > > You can come to the workshop without a board, but obviously you might be > unable to perform the manipulations yourself. > > PRACTICAL INFO > * Venue: /tmp/lab (www.tmplab.org/contact) near Paris, France > * Date: Sunday November 8th 2009, 14:00-19:00+ > * Language: FR/EN (depending on attendees) > * Price: Free of charge > * Please subscribe by editing the wiki page > (http://www.tmplab.org/wiki/index.php/FPGA_Workshop_4:_Behind_the_Scenes) > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org > IRC: #milkym...@freenode > Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html > Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki > -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com · http://genode.org _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkym...@freenode Webchat: www.milkymist.org/irc.html Wiki: www.milkymist.org/wiki
