Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 11th, 2022Integrating Hardware and Software TeamsWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for July 11th, 2022.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our esteemed guest was Jon Masters. Other speakers included Nathaneal Huffman, Tom Lyon, Dan Cross, Rick Altherr, Matt Keeter, Peter Corless, Timon, Siddharth Joshi, Bob Mader, Aaron David Goldman, Simeon Miteff, Remy Goldschmidt, and MattSci. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:@4:32 Fostering of mutual hatred between hardware and software peopleHuge difference in cost of errors in both time and money@9:38 Dealing with perishable pre-preg material Tachyon 100GTachyon 100G@15:06 The black magic that is DDRDIMM training demo@21:58 Open source tooling for EEsOpen FPGA toolingOpen RISCRISC VZero to ASIC courseLinux from scratchBen Eater's 8bit computerPhil's lab, KiCad 6 PCB design walkthoughPhil's lab, Altium Designer PCB design walkthough@33:18 Matt Keeter's take on ECAD toolsEagle CADSmaller breakout boards made with KiCad for unit testing@36:55 Timon's take on EE curriculumMath-heavy electrical engineering curriculumArts of ElectronicsKnowing at least basics of adjacent disciplines goes a long way@49:03 Software shouldn't pierce abstractions in order to work reliably, but people should to deepen their knowledge@1:04:54 Making microchips at homeSam Zeloof, maskless-photolithographyJeri Elseworth, making microchips at home@1:06:05 Oxide gets a Pick'n'Place machine?Open Hardware Pick'n'Place machine@1:09:40 Bob's take on silosSMM, System Management Mode@1:22:15 Vintage gaming as an intro into embedded softwareWiFi Game Boy Cartridge@1:26:14 Fabs at UNI@1:29:40 Intel Tofino (TM) Series Programmable Ethernet Switch ASICIntel Tofino@1:31:13 Google's open source high level synth. (HLS) tool XLSXLSBluespecChiselIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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