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Bakerman is baking bread

Like a lot of people I know, I really got into baking during COVID. Started with sourdough of course, didn’t really work out. The love of baking stuck though. Over the years, many great breads made from a mix of buckwheat, rye and whole wheat were baked and eaten, usually while still hot. Also, many, many failed attempts – I even managed to make a normally leavened bread that was flatter than the flattest flat…

Mandelbrot set on FPGA, Part 2 – Modelling & First FPGA implementation

In the previous post, I introduced my idea of implementing the Mandelbrot set on an FPGA and described the Mandelbrot set equation and the Escape-time coloring algorithm. This post will talk about the implementation.   Modeling the Mandelbrot set I consider it a good idea to start any FPGA implementation work with some planning, and in the case of an algorithm, the first thing you’d want to do is write a simple implementation of it…

Beautiful graphics from simple math – Mandelbrot set on FPGA, Part 1

Introduction to the Mandelbrot set Like I mentioned in the previous post, I wanted to familiarize myself with the HDMI output on the DE10-nano FPGA board, and there is no harm in getting some pretty graphics along the way, so I decided to implement a Mandelbrot set viewer on FPGA. If you are not familiar with the Mandelbrot set, it is a type of a fractal, which is simply put an infinitely – repeating recursive…

qSoC – The QMEM bus

QMEM bus specification This post describes the QMEM bus, the different cycles allowed, the bus elements and different bus configurations supported. 1. Introduction 2. Features 3. Signals Description 4. Cycles Description 5. Bus Elements 6. Bus Configurations Introduction QMEM (abbreviated from quick memory), is a flexible, portable, simple and fast system interconnect bus, specifically targeted at SoC systems for their inter-chip communication needs. QMEM is based on synchronous memory bus with added flow control signals,…