May 12 AMRAD Meeting

[wb4jfi]

Thank you Frank for the kind words.  I'm glad the light came on (went 
off?) for you.  I had a similar experience, and then my FPGA work took 
off.  I still hit MANY bumps in the road, but at least I have a much 
clearer understanding of how the pieces are stung together and interact.

Yes, it was a stream, as I had not planned to get into the FPGA 
programming stuff to any degree.  But, it shows how important an 
interactive discussion can be.  With one or two questions, we went in a 
different direction, and your light came on.

I'd be glad to do more of this, but I think we need to find someone with 
more FPGA experience to do one or two.  I mentioned to Bill that I would 
like to understand how to use the FPGA simulators, as that would 
dramatically speed up design verification/testing.

Thanks again.  I'm glad it all worked out so well.
73s
Terry, WB4JFI


On 5/13/2011 6:05 AM, Frank Gentges wrote:
> Tacoistas,
>
> We had a talk arranged at the last minute by Terry Fox via Skype to the library in Oakton.  Sometimes the lack of a straight jacket of detailed planning and talk outlines spawns a chance for someone like Terry to let out some really great thoughts that were sort of stuck inside his brain.
>
> We were treated to his thinking about putting together the bits and pieces of the FPGA code into modules.  Suddenly the light went off for me to see how to move from gates and such to functional blocks in a structured way.  It is always nice to have the light go off on something like this.  I was involved in structured programming for signal processing back in the 1970s and this relit that candle for me.
>
> Thanks for Terry for sharing his very fruitful stream of consciousness  last night.  Everyone should have been there.
>
> Frank K0BRA
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