gatecat

Electronic Engineer | Open Source FPGA Developer | "Full-Stack" from GUIs to bitstreams to PCBs

Current and Previous Projects:

Circuit Simulator with download
SiPM Radiation Detector flown on a high altitude balloon
FPGA based Augmented Reality - university group project (video demo)
High-Level and Low-Level FPGA Synthesis
Experiments with LoRa Radios
Open Source 4k MIPI CSI-2 Camera Interface and MIPI DSI Display Interface
70MHz-6GHz SDR using AD9361 chipset with FPGA+USB3
Adding support for the iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA to Project Icestorm and arachne-pnr, including reverse engineering its new functionality
Currently working on Project Trellis - documenting the Lattice ECP5 Architecture and bitstream format (see latest architecture and auto-generated bitstream docs)
Also working on nextpnr, a new multi-architecture FOSS FPGA place-and-route, including ECP5 support using Project Trellis
Miscellaneous Electronics

Presentations:

Project Trellis: enabling open source tools for the Lattice ECP5 FPGA, ORConf 2018 [slides] [video]
Project Trellis and nextpnr: FOSS FPGA flow for the Lattice ECP5, FOSDEM CAD and Open Hardware Devroom 2019 [slides] [video]