Hi all,
Embecosm is pleased to announce Chip Hack (chiphack.org), a two day hands-on workshop on programming FPGAs aimed at complete beginners.
Led by a team of experienced FPGA designers, and working with the DE0-nano board, we'll start with simple hardware designs to control LED's counters and push buttons and move on to a UART transmitter and (for the more ambitious) receiver.
The event coincides with Hardware Freedom Day (http://www.hfday.org) and we'll be using open source designs throughout the weekend. Our final session will show how to bring up a complete ready-made OpenRISC system-on-chip, and show where you can look under the hood to learn more.
No HDL or FPGA programming experience is required, but you will need to have some programming experience and an understanding of basic digital electronics.
The workshop is sponsored by Embecosm, and will run at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in Acton Street, London.
We are particularly keen to encourage school teachers to get involved, so we giving away a DE0-nano kit to the first 5 who apply. If you are a teacher and want to step up from Raspberry Pi, this is the workshop for you.
Numbers are limited, so book early at chiphack.org
Look forward to seeing you there,
Jeremy