Dear Casperites, I am planning on holding another CASPER Hardware Porting Workshop in South Africa next year. It is likely to be held at the same venue as this year, the South African Astronomical Observatory Auditorium in Cape Town.
This year's workshop proved to be very successful and now CASPER has decided to hold one every year - well done to everyone who contributed in making this happen. For those that missed it, we had guys from INAF, Peralex, ASIAA, NAOC, University of Berkeley, SARAO and University of Oxford and RAL come to this workshop to learn how to "casperise" their boards so that their boards could work fully with the current CASPER toolflow. The firmware for the SKARAB ADC was integrated into the toolflow by the Peralex team (Clifford van Dyk, Gavin Teague and Francois Tolmie). The iTPM hardware was casperised by Andrea Mattana, Riccardo Chiello and Matt Roberts. Homin Jiang created a yellow block for the ASIAA FMC ADC that interfaces with the Xilinx VCU118 development kit and many improvements were made to the SKARAB firmware and software. The feedback from the workshop was very positive and many stated that having the experienced toolflow team on hand really made the difference. I would like to offer the same workshop this year, but with the added benefit of attracting final year or postgraduate students to the workshop. During the CASPER conference in China this year, it has been decided to "casperise" cheaper boards in order to attract the university students to the CASPER community and discover new talent that can benefit the community. In order to do this, we will "casperise" the affordable Red Pitaya hardware and offer porting tutorials for all levels of experience during the workshop. We will have a leader team of between 11-12 experienced toolflow users on hand to assist any level of CASPER toolflow user. We will cover presentations on CASPER, the toolflow, the Red Pitaya and FPGAs in general. So whether you have your own hardware you want to casperise or you want to try the Red Pitaya, then this workshop is for you! The workshop will be run in June/July 2019 in order to coincide with the South African university holidays. For more info on the Red Pitaya hardware platform: https://www.redpitaya.com <https://www.redpitaya.com> I am only looking for those interested in attending for now, so that I can get an idea of numbers - please fill in the poll below. I am expecting 10-15 SA and African partner Students to attend. We expect a total of about 30 people. I am still in the process of applying for my budget and my budget will only cover SA students and African partner countries - flights, accommodation and S&T. It will include flight and accommodation of overseas trainers. Feel free to send me an email directly, if you know of any students (includes overseas and SA/Africa) that are not on this email list and would be interested: aisaac...@ska.ac.za. I am intending this workshop to be free, but this may or may not change depending on the powers that be. We plan to give away a Red Pitaya Hardware Platform to the student that performs the best. *Please fill in the poll below latest by the 30th November 2018*. The workshop will be for a full week and the dates represent the starting dates of the workshop. Select all dates that you can make it. I am only interested in getting an idea of numbers now. More emails to follow later. Email me directly (aisaac...@ska.ac.za) if you need more info. https://doodle.com/poll/y2829zke3y69gy3y Kind regards, Adam Isaacson South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Hardware Manager Cell: (+27) 825639602 Tel: (+27) 215067300 email: aisaac...@ska.ac.za -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.