TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
> ... the presence of an asynchronous reset is almost an universal practice when it comes to this Using async resets isn't a great example when many modern ASIC flows shun it in favor of synchronous resets. :-) (Among other reasons,
842.
by TomVDB 8y ago
The presence or lack of a reset on a FF isn't exactly the best proxy for hardware quality.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wish the documentation gave more details about the whole conversion process. I'm guessing that the RISC core gets optimized by dropping instructions that aren't needed for a particular C program. But does it have some kind of he
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Completely different. myhdl is an alternative to Verilog, but it's still RTL. This tools takes the C code, compiles it to a custom assembler language and embeds the generate assembler code as a ROM in a custom generated RISC processor.
845.
by TomVDB 8y ago
The second part: I want to bring my practical C++ knowledge up to date and I don't know C++ 11.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Is Effective Modern C++ good enough for those who learned C++ in the early 2000, still use those idioms and never upgraded to C++11 ?
847.
by TomVDB 8y ago
That'd be a great example if it weren't for the fact that Zuck didn't keep things the same at all: he wants to raze the surrounding houses.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Eventually the only people left in the Bay Area will be executives and really high-paid lawyers Yesterday's headline: "Alphabet median pay close to $200k" https://www.investopedia.com/news/googles-al
849.
by TomVDB 8y ago
$25k per year. I don't see how that's relevant though.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I'm ruining my city because I went to a bunch of open houses, choose a house that I like in a nice neighborhood and paid (a lot) for it? That's definitely an original kind of argument.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You buy a house in a nice neighborhood with nice single family houses and well kept gardens and very little traffic. You like it that way. You pay a lot for that. You don't like it when some of those houses are replaced by an apartment
852.
by TomVDB 8y ago
50 ft is plenty, 3 stories, and has little to do with greed. The new zoning rules in our neighborhood limit height to 17 ft. And greed wasn't the driving factor either. People are much more concerned about the new neighbor tearing down
853.
by TomVDB 8y ago
I don't understand why you're being down voted. Is it really controversial to say that a regular single family house in a single family house neighborhood will go down in value when somebody decides to plant an apartment complex r
854.
by TomVDB 8y ago
That is true, and nobody claimed otherwise. But I can have the desire for the conditions to stay the same.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Why do you make the assumption somebody is looking down on somebody else? It has nothing to do with the inhabitants. It's about the ugliness of these kind of buildings and everything that goes with increased density (traffic, street pa
856.
by TomVDB 8y ago
Are you sure that the zoning laws are driven by developers and real estate investors? In most Bay Area cities, they are the wishes of the residents who do not want more development. My neighborhood in Sunnyvale was recently rezoned to be si
857.
by TomVDB 9y ago
Most current home owners have no interest in selling to a developer or developing ourselves. We just want to continue live in conditions that were present when we bought it: a nice house with a garden on a quiet street. Yes, that is selfish
858.
by TomVDB 9y ago
For many, that lawyer for an afternoon is an additional $1000 out of packet expense on a side project website that wasn't profitable to begin with.
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by TomVDB 9y ago
> Compliance is trivial and involves steps that are already best-practices anyway. Isn't that besides the point? You can be 100% compliant and still be sued by somebody. And you'd have to pay some lawyer a lot of money to make
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by TomVDB 9y ago
That's my experience as well. I was initially against it, but my company (or at least my department?) is now very good at making sure people get sufficient time off.
861.
by TomVDB 9y ago
It's different in that virtually all HN comments on that article are negative.
862.
by TomVDB 9y ago
HIP is only useful to convert CUDA source code. Tensorflow uses the cuDNN library, which is closed source. There is nothing for HIP to convert.
863.
by TomVDB 9y ago
You really should try IceStorm. I've been using it for the past month. It works extremely well and it's fast .
864.
by TomVDB 9y ago
For those looking for cheap FPGA boards, I highly recommend looking for something that is based on the Lattice ICE40. The cheapest board you can find is probably the $9 Upduino, though trickier to get going. (Complete lack of documentation.
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by TomVDB 9y ago
VHDL is popular in Europe and the US East Coast. Verilog is king on the West Coast. An an EE who was schooled in VHDL, gave VHDL classes to new hires and was conditioned to look down on Verilog: after moving from Europe to the East Coast an
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by TomVDB 9y ago
* Never use asynchronous resets [on FPGAs] It makes no difference for most FPGAs. Most have dedicated resources dedicated to resets and consume equal resources for async and sync resets. For ASIC, sync resets these days are considered safer
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by TomVDB 9y ago
The lowest practical gaming GPU from Nvidia is the GTX 1050. Its launch MSRP was $110. Today, they are either sold out, or available for $160 or more. GTX 1060 6GB: launch MSRP was $250. Today it's either of stock or selling for $350.
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by TomVDB 9y ago
I've used this little guy to run experiments with the PicoRV32: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Mini-System-Development-... The board is less than $15. Add a JTAG cable clone for another $10, and you're a
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by TomVDB 9y ago
Intel and Nvidia have gross margins of 58% or higher. Other semiconductor companies like Broadcom are around 50%. 34% is better than the 30% of last year, but it's still really bad.
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by TomVDB 9y ago
I switched from Ubiquiti to Eero and couldn't be happier. The problem with the Unifi accesspoints (I used an AC Pro) is that their reach is quite a bit lower than standard cheap access points such as a TP-Link Archer C7. The only way I

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