[Ground-station] Open Research Institute purchases Vivado license for advanced FPGA work

[Robert McGwier]

Nice!



On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 5:09 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> Thanks to the generous support of Yasme Foundation, ARRL Foundation, and
> many individual Open Research Institute supporters, ORI has purchased a
> full floating Vivado license for FPGA work. This includes the System
> Generator for DSP.
>
> We are testing a setup that will make team and community use of this
> license possible. This is a big step forward from our current situation and
> will greatly accelerate FGPA design and test.
>
> The first step was setting up a license server at a donated data center.
> Many thanks to Nick KN6NK for offering the time, resources, and expertise
> to get this working.
>
> The second step, being tested right now, is using GitHub as a directory
> service for adding users and keys.
>
> The goal is for users of the license to be able to add themselves with
> minimal admin overhead while asserting some reasonable control over access.
>
> GitHub provides a way for users to get public keys. The work required of
> us is to script user management and periodically sync key management.
>
> Thank you to EJ Kreiner for helping test and refine this community asset.
> We anticipate being able to support as many amateur technical communities
> and projects as possible, to get the greatest possible use from the
> license.
>
> Special thanks to ARRL and Yasme. We would not be able to afford this
> investment without your support.
>
> -Michelle W5NYV
>
>
>

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