[Ground-station] Fwd: FPGA iCEBreaker Workshop – digital communications for amateur satellites

[Michelle Thompson]

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From: Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 14:22
Subject: FPGA iCEBreaker Workshop – digital communications for amateur
satellites


Greetings all!

(as you all know) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are one of three
fundamental types of digital architectures used for communications R&D.

The others are general purpose processors and graphical processing units
(GPUs).

This fall, in San Diego, California, there will be an FPGA course sponsored
by Open Research Institute. There are 10 spots with amateur communications
as the focus of the work.

FPGAs are a primary technology in satellite communications. They're used in
R&D and in deployment. It is difficult to get started with FPGA design for
several reasons. The tools have traditionally been proprietary. The
companies that make the tools price them for large corporations to buy.
Coursework for FPGA design is rare.

This is where iCEBreaker makes a difference.

An iCEBreaker Workshop 10 pack has been made available. They are described
at this link https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga

We want to use this hardware to put on a course for anyone interested in
amateur radio satellite and terrestrial development. All course materials
will be published.

The first course will be in San Diego. If you're in the area, please get in
touch! MakerPlace and CoLab are the likely sites.

Later workshops could be at places like Symposium, Xenia, or Hamcation. The
full course cannot be accomplished in a day, but a workshop could get the
basics across and provide a substantial boost to motivated amateur
satellite engineering volunteers. Let me know what you all think.

more soon!
-Michelle W5NYV
-- 
-Michelle W5NYV

"Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."
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