New skills

Notes page for New Skills and Existing Skills

^ Software Development Tools

Software development tools too investigate . . .

^ Cmake

• https://cmake.org/overview/

C++ Programming Lanuage and Topics

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/the-c-standard-template-library-stl/ C++ STL classes
• http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1319r0.html C++11 versus C++14
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_(C%2B%2B) References C++ versus Pointers C

2021-02-09 Tuesday - Direct Rendering Manager DRM and related:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units

Open source examples of Direct Rendering Manager:

• https://github.com/freedesktop/mesa-drm

QtConcurrent . . .

• https://doc.qt.io/Qt-5/qtconcurrent-index.html Code written with QtConcurrent automatically adjusts number of threads instantiated based on number of available processor cores detected at run time . . .
• https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/containers.html Qt container classes, replacements for C++ STL (Standard Templates Library)

^ Containers

^ Docker

STUB SECTION

^ Kubernetes

Containers, Kubernets . . .

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/

^ FPGAs

FPGAs and Their Uses . . .

• https://www.prowesscorp.com/what-is-fpga/#:~:text=FPGAs%20are%20particularly%20useful%20for,FPGAs%20to%20prototype%20new%20chips. FPGAs for chip prototyping
• https://www.adafruit.com/product/451#description DE0-Nano - Altera Cyclone IV FPGA starter board
• https://hackaday.io/page/6698-choosing-fpga-starter-kit-what-to-consider

Somewhat dated with a posting date of 2015 . . .

• https://wonderfulengineering.com/10-best-fpga-boards-for-engineers-and-hobbyists/

ALTERA Cyclone IV EP4CE6 FPGA Development Board Kit Altera EP4CE NIOSII FPGA Board and USB Downloader Infrared Controller

• https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/clgotw/open_source_tools_fpga_programming_on_linux/

" Well, there is also a Verilog IDE which runs on Linux: https://github.com/rochus-keller/VerilogCreator/blob/master/README.md

And I'm not sure what you mean by "reasonable sized mainstream FPGAs", but there is a full open source toolchain e.g. for Lattice ECP5 and also the Xilinx 7-series will be supported soon. "

• https://github.com/rochus-keller/VerilogCreator

• electronicdesign.com/resources/whats-the-difference-between/article/21800239/whats-the-difference-between-vhdl-verilog-and-systemverilog

• http://www.clifford.at/yosys/links.html

• https://elinux.org/images/7/79/Open-Source_Tools_for_FPGA_Development.pdf

• http://pepijndevos.nl/2019/08/15/open-source-formal-verification-in-vhdl.html

^ Verilog and VHDL

VHDL and Verilog editors and simulators

• https://insights.sigasi.com/faq/#which-free-vhdl-simulator-can-i-use
• https://github.com/Obijuan/open-fpga-verilog-tutorial
Verilog tutorials recommendations:
• https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-verilog . . . Ten best Verilog tutorials
• https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/training/all-courses/82110.html
• https://www.doulos.com/knowhow/verilog/

Recommended books on Verilog:

• https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anyone_refer_a_good_book_for_getting_started_with_verilog_HDL_to_implement_design_on_FPGA_Aritx-7

^ Xilinx tools

Best download method for Xilinx developer tools and libraries . . .

• https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Blog-Archive/Best-way-to-download-Xilinx-Design-Tools/td-p/816995

^ FPGA articles at Digikey

2021-02-18 Thursday

• https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/fundamentals-of-fpgas-part-5-getting-started-with-intel-altera-fpgas
• https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/fpgas-101-a-beginners-guide

^ FPGA development kits

• https://www.mouser.com/new/terasic-technologies/terasic-fpga-development-kits-altera-cyclone-iv/
• https://www.amazon.com/Altera-Cyclone-FPGA-Development-Board/dp/B0188D4ENO/
• amazon.com/ALINX-ALTERA-Development-EP4CE6-AX301C/dp/B07DBXVMFZ/

^ Existing skills

• https://www.altexsoft.com/whitepapers/agile-project-management-best-practices-and-methodologies/

Excerpt of Agile values in a nutshell:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan.”