2021-08-11
This little rant’s been brewing for a while.
I’ve been using Linux Mint for some years on my daily driver machine, and Mint13 Mate edition had been working well enough that I hadn’t noticed how many years had gone by since I installed it.
Until…
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A few weeks ago I was helping someone with an FPGA problem, and realised that I take for granted the phenomenally useful tool that is SignalTap. Since the person I was trying to help wasn’t familiar with it, I put together a quick Crash Course video. Initially unlisted, it’s apparently been useful for at least one other person, so I decided to make it public in the hope that others might find it useful too
Maybe I’ll do some more Crash Courses in future…
Writing a new SDRAM controller – part 4 – 2021-08-06
The SDRAM controller I’ve described so far in this series is basically performing well – not quite as well as the one it’s intended to replace – but there’s still one more trick we can use to squeeze out a little more performance…
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