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IT News<p>Commodore 64 on New FPGA - When it comes to getting retro hardware running again, there are many approaches. ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/commodore-64-on-new-fpga/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/07/28/commod</span><span class="invisible">ore-64-on-new-fpga/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore64</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tangnano9k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tangnano9k</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vic</span></a>-ii <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hdmi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hdmi</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a></p>
Steckschwein<p>Programming ATF1508 CPLDs using Altera Quartus II, a bunch of other tools and the Adafruit FT232H Breakout</p><p><a href="https://www.steckschwein.de/post/2025/07/cpld-upgrade-new-toolchain/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">steckschwein.de/post/2025/07/c</span><span class="invisible">pld-upgrade-new-toolchain/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cpld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cpld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atf1508" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atf1508</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/altera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>altera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openocd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openocd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jalefkowit</span></a></span> </p><p>It's an interesting point you highlight because I've never thought of things through that paradigm. Now that I see it, I realise I'm hoping to transition to <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/openBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openBSD</span></a> because I believe of mainstream operating systems, it probably has the best <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DX</span></a>.</p><p>In this particular case, I believe that the developers exploit that in order to optimise for what might be called <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> which impresses me.</p><p>I realise it's probably an outlier in this regard!</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/developerExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developerExperience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quality</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/systemArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemArchitecture</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/complexSystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>complexSystemsTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/qualityAssurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qualityAssurance</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Deming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deming</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Shuart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shuart</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/abstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abstraction</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/electricalEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electricalEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDL</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Can We Replace a Program Counter with a Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can! - Today we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we</span><span class="invisible">-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forth</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cpu</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vm</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The Spade Hardware Description Language - Spade is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) developed at Linköping... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/the-spade-hardware-description-language/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/13/the-sp</span><span class="invisible">ade-hardware-description-language/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hardwaredescriptionlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardwaredescriptionlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spadelanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spadelanguage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/asic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asic</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hdl</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too? - We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/did-you-know-yosys-knows-vhdl-too/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/04/did-yo</span><span class="invisible">u-know-yosys-knows-vhdl-too/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/yosys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yosys</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a></p>
Alfred M. Szmidt<p>Calling all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDL</span></a> hackers! I need help in putting the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CADR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CADR</span></a> onto a FPGA board. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Verilog</span></a>, does not matter much. Who is up for a fun challange? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LispMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LispMachine</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Making USB Blaster Clones Work For Linux - The last time we checked in with [Downtown Doug Brown], he had some cheap Altera U... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/making-usb-blaster-clones-work-for-linux/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/07/29/making</span><span class="invisible">-usb-blaster-clones-work-for-linux/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/alterablaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alterablaster</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cpld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cpld</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a></p>
MPI for Gravitational Physics<p>📢 Job opportunity 📢</p><p>Postdoc in our “Precision Interferometry and Fundamental Interactions” department at the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/@mpi_grav" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mpi_grav</span></a></span> in Hannover</p><p>Help develop a hardware-in-the-loop LISA testbed to test the entire data analysis pipeline from photons to source parameters. We look for candidates with a strong interest in working with FPGAs and DSPs. Familiarity with VHDL programming is also a plus.</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://www.aei.mpg.de/971687/postdoc-precision-interferometry-and-fundamental-interactions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aei.mpg.de/971687/postdoc-prec</span><span class="invisible">ision-interferometry-and-fundamental-interactions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Postdoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Postdoc</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/DSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSP</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/LISAMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LISAMission</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Job</span></a> <a href="https://social.mpdl.mpg.de/tags/Hannover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hannover</span></a></p>
Jakub Cabal<p>Implementing HDL verification using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UVM</span></a> is annoying and tedious. So <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cocotb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cocotb</span></a> seems to be the right choice. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/systemverilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemverilog</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a></p>
Jakub Cabal<p>My project spi-fpga is available on Github for many years and is gradually collecting stars. It is just a simple <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SPI</span></a> controller for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGAs</span></a> written in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, so I didn't expect 156 stars. <a href="https://github.com/jakubcabal/spi-fpga" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/jakubcabal/spi-fpga</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
TheZoq2<p>For the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a> enjoyers out there, we just added experimental support for the GHW wave format to Surfer.</p><p>Since it is experimental, we expect some things to be broken, so if you try it and find a GHW file that doesn't work properly, please open an issue!</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ekiwi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ekiwi</span></a></span> for adding this support to the Wellen library!</p><p>As always you can try it in the browser if you don't feel like installing something <a href="https://app.surfer-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">app.surfer-project.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Peter Brett<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> Having used both: I still don't understand how the industry settled on <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Verilog</span></a> rather than <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VHDL</span></a>, which is vastly superior.</p>
Ross of Ottawa<p>In the '90s I worked on big chip design projects, and would create these big test suites for part of my chip's functionality which would've taken about 100years (literally) to run on one machine, but i could farm out the tasks to process in parallel on all the machines of my co-workers when they went home and get it done in 10 or 12 hrs instead. It created a sense that an idle processor is a wasted opportunity.</p><p>Could hashtag that with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sunOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunOS</span></a> I suppose</p>
PipelineC<p>Have you fine Mastodon folks seen this awesome work?</p><p>First ever raytraced game thats not software? 1080p realtime, interactive, fixed+float point, 3D vector math, no CPU, no instructions, autopipelined in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FPGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FPGA</span></a>! <br>@suarezvictor's fantastic work w/ CflexHDL + PipelineC! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/raytracing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raytracing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hdl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/eda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eda</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/hn3sr3VMJQU" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/hn3sr3VMJQU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Remi<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a><br>I guess this is a Mastodon thing. Good morning. I'm a EE working primarily with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fpga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fpga</span></a> devices, primarily in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vhdl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vhdl</span></a> (though <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/verilog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verilog</span></a> if I have to). I currently work creating testing equipment for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/avionics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>avionics</span></a>. Generally prefer <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> for development though I did write VHDL Mode for <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sublimetext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sublimetext</span></a> which works pretty well.</p><p>In regular life I'm a <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fantasy</span></a> reader, enjoy walking my <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dog</span></a>, enjoy raiding and M+ in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/warcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>warcraft</span></a>, enjoy playing Go (<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gogame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gogame</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/baduk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>baduk</span></a>), and other things.</p>
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