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What sort of circuits do you want to design? RF? Audio? Analogue is a big field! It's like saying "I want to write programs, which books do you recommend?"

by joshvm 11y ago

nickpsecurity 11y ago
I'm gathering information to help everyone out then organizing, cataloging, and sharing it. You could say it falls into some basic categories: 1. Enough knowledge to get designs working on a FPGA plus integrate that with other chips on a PCB. OSS HW with minimal analog. 2. Enough knowledge to design basic analog circuits for control and stuff. Alternatively, to design digital cell libraries as there's almost nothing available for academic toolbuilders. 3. The serious, mixed-signal shit that lets me do some parts in digital and some parts in analog where it handles it better. I've seen analog coprocessors with 100x performance at 1/8th power on ODE's and stuff. It also seems like certain signal processing or media codec tasks would be crazy fast/efficient in analog. I know high-end ASIC's make extensive use of such techniques. What tidbits I see in blog comments and papers can only be described as black magic without a more thorough resource. :) 4. RF books outside of ARRL that's been recommended to me. Need a lot of people experimenting with this stuff to reinvent things like TEMPEST that are classified. They need some good resources to get head-start. So, those are some basic categories where I'm looking for both accessible, foundational material and cookbooks with heuristics. Being able to combine COTS components like MCU's and FPGA's on custom PCB's is major help to hobbyists. Being able to make the cells and basic, analog components required in about any ASIC in conjunction with tools like Qflow OSS Synthesis could get custom stuff going quicker. More thorough stuff for mixed-signal for its advantages plus to explore analog and digital interactions in digital systems that can screw either up. And RF for reasons stated. Whatever you have. Drop it here or email it to me in my profile address. I'll keep circulating that along with others tips and resources whenever people ask.

What sort of circuits do you want to design? RF? Audio? Analogue is a big field! It's like saying "I want to write programs, which books do you recommend?"

by joshvm 11y ago

What sort of circuits do you want to design? RF? Audio? Analogue is a big field! It's like saying "I want to write programs, which books do you recommend?"

nickpsecurity 11y ago

I'm gathering information to help everyone out then organizing, cataloging, and sharing it. You could say it falls into some basic categories: 1. Enough knowledge to get designs working on a FPGA plus integrate that with other chips on a PCB. OSS HW with minimal analog. 2. Enough knowledge to design basic analog circuits for control and stuff. Alternatively, to design digital cell libraries as there's almost nothing available for academic toolbuilders. 3. The serious, mixed-signal shit that lets me do some parts in digital and some parts in analog where it handles it better. I've seen analog coprocessors with 100x performance at 1/8th power on ODE's and stuff. It also seems like certain signal processing or media codec tasks would be crazy fast/efficient in analog. I know high-end ASIC's make extensive use of such techniques. What tidbits I see in blog comments and papers can only be described as black magic without a more thorough resource. :) 4. RF books outside of ARRL that's been recommended to me. Need a lot of people experimenting with this stuff to reinvent things like TEMPEST that are classified. They need some good resources to get head-start. So, those are some basic categories where I'm looking for both accessible, foundational material and cookbooks with heuristics. Being able to combine COTS components like MCU's and FPGA's on custom PCB's is major help to hobbyists. Being able to make the cells and basic, analog components required in about any ASIC in conjunction with tools like Qflow OSS Synthesis could get custom stuff going quicker. More thorough stuff for mixed-signal for its advantages plus to explore analog and digital interactions in digital systems that can screw either up. And RF for reasons stated. Whatever you have. Drop it here or email it to me in my profile address. I'll keep circulating that along with others tips and resources whenever people ask.