Ivan Novoselov

⚡ Speed Up Your Cadence Virtuoso Workflow with Bindkeys! ⚡ ✅ Schematic bindkeys ✅ Layout bindkeys ✅ Printable cheatsheets to help you remember them 💡 Are you using all the essential hotkeys? Check out this article to see if you're missing any game-changing shortcuts! 👉 Read now: https://lnkd.in/egPzCuhq #CadenceVirtuoso #CadenceBindkeys #ProductivityHacks #AnalogDesign #EDA #Bindkeys #AnalogHub #AnalogICLayout #AnalogICDesign #Cadence #Virtuoso

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Bringing Linux developers into Zephyr? Easy. Bringing embedded developers into Zephyr? That’s a different story. Some say Zephyr is “easy.” Others say it’s “hard.” The truth? It depends on where you’re coming from. Zephyr comes from the Linux Foundation, so naturally, it borrows a lot from Linux. For Linux developers, that’s a good thing. Familiar tooling, familiar concepts. They dive in and feel right at home. But for embedded developers? It’s a culture shock. Device trees, Kconfig, west… things they’ve never had to think about before. That’s why they say Zephyr has a steep learning curve. The reality? Zephyr isn’t inherently easy or hard. It’s just a matter of perspective. What do you think? How has your experience with Zephyr been so far? Let me know in the comments below 👇

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Cerebras Systems inside of Cline provides lightning fast inference inside your developer workflow. Here is a quick tutorial showing just how easy it is. There are lots of things worth waiting for. Inference results aren't among them. Build with the fastest...

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Why is Soan Papdi FPGA board Special? Yes. There are several FPGAs out there. I however, did not find any of them suitable for teaching Digital Design to Kids (age 5 and up). Boards either have too many features, Peripherals, or have a very complicated development flow. None of which is appealing to anyone wanting to test the waters of Digital Design. The Design of Soan Papdi is very deliberate! + There are 8 LEDs can be used to convey 8 Bit Data. + The 8 switches can be group into two groups of 4 bits. + There are 4 Status LEDs. + And 10 General Purpose I/O pins. Obviously, The LEDs, Switches and Status LED are hooked to GPIOs. We just chose to use them in a specific manner. The Switches and LEDs can be used in simple circuits like the Gates, Mux/Demux, Adders, Counters etc These primitive digital circuits pave the way for complicated sequential circuits enabling state machine design. State-Machine design can evolve into Single Cycle CPU design :D Further, Soan Papdi is based on iCE40UP5K FPGA which has enough Logical Unit to deploy a RISC-V CPU (rv32i). To the point the peripherals can be hand picked. The address map can be configured as needed. The Firmware can be written in ASM/C and uploaded to the memory... You get the flow? This cute looking board starts off as a toy you fiddle with but doesn't limit what you can do with it. From being a starting point for Digital Design to being able to deploy complicated state machines (like the rv32i core) - it handles it all! A humble/polite beast! You can learn everything from Hardware Design to Firmware Development using just one piece of hardware! How cool is that?? But!! It doesn't end here :D The development is based on open source tools that work on - Linux, Windows and Mac. There is a flourishing open source community and documentation that smoothens the learning. From a GUI based tool to the power off command-line. Everything; Covered! To not miss the updates about this board, be on the mailing list - https://lnkd.in/guwZKFHM or Follow Piyush Itankar. I will start to record a course using this board. It will be available to the subscribers of the Library Access: pyjamabrah.com/library

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Thermal challenges don’t appear at deployment. They’re baked into your FPGA the moment you define the architecture. If you ignore leakage, switching density, and hotspots early on, you’re signing up for throttling and redesign later. But if you plan for them, you unlock performance that lasts. #fpga #fpgadesign #thermalmanagement

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Laszlo Agocs, Principal Software Engineer at Qt Group, explores common challenges when migrating graphics-intensive applications from Qt 5 to Qt 6. He examines typical issues with rendering, performance, resource usage, and memory, and explains how to address them. Check out Laszlo’s full presentation, “Common Graphics Performance and Rendering-Related Issues when Moving from Qt 5 to 6”, here: https://lnkd.in/djZPQZat

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With the shipment of the Looking Glass 27'' Light Field Display, we have some exciting software updates to share: ⭐️ Build or integrate custom applications using a native SDK for OpenGL, DirectX, and Metal. Samples for C++, C#, and Python with our Bridge SDK. ⭐️ Easily visualize your 3D Unity scenes in the Looking Glass, build fully interactive 3D applications for Looking Glass on PC, Mac, or iOS, and preview scenes with live editor view in a Looking Glass display with our updated Unity Plugin. ⭐️ Use the latest version of Looking Glass Studio to playback pre-rendered image and video content from Unity, Unreal, Blender, or standard 2D images and videos with generated depth. Now with iOS support. ⭐️ Visualize designs in immersive 3D using the new CAD support in the 3D Model Viewer. ⭐️ Extend and customize our open-sourced Blender, WebXR and Unreal plugins to meet your specific needs.

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🚀📣 Big news for FPGA developers! The latest 2025.1 release of Lattice Radiant and Lattice Propel software introduces faster verification cycles, intuitive design creation, and enhanced capabilities—empowering developers to efficiently design and deploy FPGAs across a wide range of applications. Explore how these updates can accelerate your next project: https://bit.ly/44k1VWa

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Back in May at the Embedded Recipes conference, Bootlin engineer Antonin Godard gave a lightning talk titled "Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded: Recent Changes and Future Directions", for which we are happy to share the slides in this post. As the maintainer of The Yocto Project, A Linux Foundation Project documentation, Antonin Godard is in an unique position to follow what's happening in the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded worlds, and he took the opportunity of Embedded Recipes to share a quick summary of the main new features and changes in recent releases. People interested in the talk can also watch the recording at https://lnkd.in/exk6U-j8.

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📺 Ever wondered where PWM or PDM is actually used in real life? Most of us remember learning about modulation techniques like PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) or PDM (Pulse Density Modulation) in our embedded systems classes... ...and then we forgot them. Not because they’re useless, but because no one told us where they really shine. 🎯 One underrated yet daily use-case? Your TV or AC Remote. Yes, seriously. Every time you press a button to change the channel or switch off the AC, you're unknowingly triggering a PWM-based communication. 🔍 So How It Works: Infrared (IR) remotes use modulation techniques like PWM or PDM to encode data into light pulses. ➡️ Each key on your remote corresponds to a unique code ➡️That code is sent using bursts of IR light, modulated with PWM ➡️The receiver decodes the duration and gaps between pulses to figure out the command This is how your TV knows you pressed volume up, not power off. ⚙️ Why PWM? Resistant to noise Easy to implement in hardware Efficient for short-range line-of-sight communication 🤯 You thought PWM was only for motor control? Turns out — it’s literally in your hand, every time you use your remote. 💬 So next time you press a button on your remote… Remember: you’re not just flipping channels. You’re engaging a classic embedded system concept — in action! #EmbeddedSystems #microcontroller #programming #C #Cprogramming #SignalProcessing #TechFacts #Electronics

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“The HiFive Premier P550 is a high-performance development board designed to push the boundaries of RISC-V development.” Check out Elektor International Media’s roundup of RISC-V boards to learn more about how SiFive’s HiFive Premier P550 and HiFive1 Rev B boards are opening up new opportunities for RISC-V developers: https://hubs.la/Q037NzhL0

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