Quartus is available for SUSE and RedHat -- not sure about other distros. (I used the Windows version in the courses I teach.) My students use the DE1 prototyping kit from Altera -- actually it's made by Terasic in Taiwan. $150 buys you a board with a good-sized set of I/Os, three memory chips, etc. As I've said here before, I find Quartus (Altera) easier to work with than ISE (Xilinx). Students can drill down in the schematics and see the gate-level structures, which I never figured out how to do using ISE. I'm sure you can do it, it's just that I found it easier when using Quartus.
I've had great experience with PrinceXML -- same document to generate both interactive web page and printable PDF using CSS3 tailored to the media. If you already know HTML/CSS, extending yourself to CSS3 is a lot easier than learning LaTeX.
Celoxica (the company that developed Handel-C) was taken over by Agility (Mentor) half a year ago. Handel-C is great (except for some crufty syntax around the I/O parts), and the DK development environment is good. But I'd be wary of getting involved with it until its future is more certain.
As I just posted in reply to a Handel-C comment above, I've been using Quartus for several semesters now, currently with an inexpensive prototyping board from them. Altera has given great academic support, and we've had none of the problems the parent poster mentions. I do a mix of schematics and Verilog. For example, I'll do the Verlog version of a module, and have the students implement the schematic to replace it in a bigger design. I don't doubt the parent's experience, but as a moral and ethical person, I had to reply...
I taught a lab course using Handel-C for a few years, and would recomment it highly; I was trying to get computer science students to be able to "think parallel" as one could do only in hardware -- but which is crucial for transitioning software developers into the multi/many core realities. Unfortunately, Celoxica has sold the Handel-C/DK development environment, and it is not clear whether it will actually stay around much longer. So I wouldn't adopt it now.
Xilinx is great, but I now use a $150 prototyping board from Altera in another course, and they provide great academic support for their "Quartus" IDE, which lets the students combine modules developed as schematics, in Verilog, in SystemVerilog, in VHDL, as a state diagram, and/or in AHDL. It seemed easier to me to bring the students up to speed on Quartus compared to Xilinx' "ISE". (Xilinx was the backend for Handel-C, and I just never got used to using the front end, so I'm not really comparing the two, just saying that the toolchain from Altera is good and that there are good inexpensive protoyping boards from them too.)
From that document: 1.2.1. How to read this specification
This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.
It is remotely conceivable that the company in question knows how many copies of WGA it has pushed, can count how many acceptances it receives, and could possibly perform the calculation that would tell it how many copies were not accepted by users, without the need to receive direct confirmation of the latter.
Wet lumber will trigger it. There is a test mode so you can see whether your wood will set it off without acutally running the spinning blade into it.
Big deal is that each false/true alarm costs $70 for the replacement sensor-actuator cartridge and whatever your blade itself costs. My reluctance to buy one was with a sole source supplier, how can I be sure of having replacement cartridges X years down the road? It's an expensive saw to have to junk because the company goes under. All right, this is/. so "anyone" can wire around the mechanism to make it work without a cart. in place.
I teach a course in web design for non-majors. They have Dreamweaver and Vim available, with one page mini-tutorials on setting up and getting started with both available to them. Some of the students with good broadband broadband access to the lab from off campus use Dreamweaver, and the rest seem happy to use Vim. I provide a.vimrc that pretty much removes the overhead of switching between command and insert mode. I require them to format their source code so I can read it, which turns out to be easier for them to do consistently with Vim rather than Dreamweaver.
When teaching Java (instead of Javascript), the integrated debugger in Eclipse makes the IDE choice a no-brainer. There is nothing that prevents you from teaching basic principles of sw development when using an IDE. The Java language obscures so much of that (automatic compilation of referenced classes, linking at run-time, etc.) that that material has to be presented separately from the act of developing and testing the code anyway.
The Intel processor is "ARM Architecture v.5TE compliant" and also "include[s] Intel® Wireless MMX(TM) technology". I thought MMX was an IA-32 instruction set feature. And I thought Intel dropped their licensing agreement with ARM. Anybody got simple explanations?
I wrote a letter to Susan Peterson Kennedy, the president of Penguin USA saying I thought it was bad publicity for them to harass the established owner of the domain name and that they should make right. Pointed out most of the other things said here, like they couldn't have been so stupid as not to know the name was already taken, etc.
Quite frankly, we're usually happy if you people get within an order of magnitude of the correct value.
From the article: "Anyway, the measured distance between the melted points from my sample was 6cm....Thus: the wavelength is.6m x 2 = 0.12m"
I guess nobody commented on this because saying 6 cm is.6m is exactly one order of magnitude off, which is close enough to "within" for/. ? The fact that multiplying 0.6 by 2 to get 0.12 just shows how easy arithmetic is if you know the answer you're supposed to get at the end.
We just started using some development kits for FPGA design from Celoxica Ltd. They came fitted with the Mitsumi module given in the subject. The interface to the FPGA consists of just 5 pins, Rx, Tx, RTS, CTS, and Reset. Celoxica provided a Handel-C demo that transmits info between the parallel port and the bluetooth module, but we haven't had a chance to experiment with it ourselves yet. Tune in later this semester! The Celoxica docs for the board refer users to the Mitsumi web site for details.
I have some pictures of the board on the coure web site. The bluetooth module is just above the "Rev B" sticker in the first picture.
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Quartus is available for SUSE and RedHat -- not sure about other distros. (I used the Windows version in the courses I teach.)
My students use the DE1 prototyping kit from Altera -- actually it's made by Terasic in Taiwan. $150 buys you a board with a good-sized set of I/Os, three memory chips, etc.
As I've said here before, I find Quartus (Altera) easier to work with than ISE (Xilinx). Students can drill down in the schematics and see the gate-level structures, which I never figured out how to do using ISE. I'm sure you can do it, it's just that I found it easier when using Quartus.
I've had great experience with PrinceXML -- same document to generate both interactive web page and printable PDF using CSS3 tailored to the media. If you already know HTML/CSS, extending yourself to CSS3 is a lot easier than learning LaTeX.
Celoxica (the company that developed Handel-C) was taken over by Agility (Mentor) half a year ago. Handel-C is great (except for some crufty syntax around the I/O parts), and the DK development environment is good. But I'd be wary of getting involved with it until its future is more certain.
As I just posted in reply to a Handel-C comment above, I've been using Quartus for several semesters now, currently with an inexpensive prototyping board from them. Altera has given great academic support, and we've had none of the problems the parent poster mentions. I do a mix of schematics and Verilog. For example, I'll do the Verlog version of a module, and have the students implement the schematic to replace it in a bigger design. I don't doubt the parent's experience, but as a moral and ethical person, I had to reply ...
I taught a lab course using Handel-C for a few years, and would recomment it highly; I was trying to get computer science students to be able to "think parallel" as one could do only in hardware -- but which is crucial for transitioning software developers into the multi/many core realities. Unfortunately, Celoxica has sold the Handel-C/DK development environment, and it is not clear whether it will actually stay around much longer. So I wouldn't adopt it now.
Xilinx is great, but I now use a $150 prototyping board from Altera in another course, and they provide great academic support for their "Quartus" IDE, which lets the students combine modules developed as schematics, in Verilog, in SystemVerilog, in VHDL, as a state diagram, and/or in AHDL. It seemed easier to me to bring the students up to speed on Quartus compared to Xilinx' "ISE". (Xilinx was the backend for Handel-C, and I just never got used to using the front end, so I'm not really comparing the two, just saying that the toolchain from Altera is good and that there are good inexpensive protoyping boards from them too.)
1.2.1. How to read this specification
This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.
It is remotely conceivable that the company in question knows how many copies of WGA it has pushed, can count how many acceptances it receives, and could possibly perform the calculation that would tell it how many copies were not accepted by users, without the need to receive direct confirmation of the latter.
Wet lumber will trigger it. There is a test mode so you can see whether your wood will set it off without acutally running the spinning blade into it.
/. so "anyone" can wire around the mechanism to make it work without a cart. in place.
Big deal is that each false/true alarm costs $70 for the replacement sensor-actuator cartridge and whatever your blade itself costs. My reluctance to buy one was with a sole source supplier, how can I be sure of having replacement cartridges X years down the road? It's an expensive saw to have to junk because the company goes under. All right, this is
I teach a course in web design for non-majors. They have Dreamweaver and Vim available, with one page mini-tutorials on setting up and getting started with both available to them. Some of the students with good broadband broadband access to the lab from off campus use Dreamweaver, and the rest seem happy to use Vim. I provide a .vimrc that pretty much removes the overhead of switching between command and insert mode. I require them to format their source code so I can read it, which turns out to be easier for them to do consistently with Vim rather than Dreamweaver.
When teaching Java (instead of Javascript), the integrated debugger in Eclipse makes the IDE choice a no-brainer. There is nothing that prevents you from teaching basic principles of sw development when using an IDE. The Java language obscures so much of that (automatic compilation of referenced classes, linking at run-time, etc.) that that material has to be presented separately from the act of developing and testing the code anyway.
Not totally true. I have a web page with a fixed position nav bar that now displays correctly pinned in place.
But I also have a bigger page that uses fixed positioning that's totally broken; doesn't display most of the page content at all.
I'm talking validated xhtml1.1 with proper doctype and CSS2.1 here.
The Intel processor is "ARM Architecture v.5TE compliant" and also "include[s] Intel® Wireless MMX(TM) technology". I thought MMX was an IA-32 instruction set feature. And I thought Intel dropped their licensing agreement with ARM. Anybody got simple explanations?
I wrote a letter to Susan Peterson Kennedy, the president of Penguin USA saying I thought it was bad publicity for them to harass the established owner of the domain name and that they should make right. Pointed out most of the other things said here, like they couldn't have been so stupid as not to know the name was already taken, etc.
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Redundancy is one of the seven deadly virtues.
Quite frankly, we're usually happy if you people get within an order of magnitude of the correct value.
...Thus: the wavelength is .6m x 2 = 0.12m"
.6m is exactly one order of magnitude off, which is close enough to "within" for /. ? The fact that multiplying 0.6 by 2 to get 0.12 just shows how easy arithmetic is if you know the answer you're supposed to get at the end.
From the article: "Anyway, the measured distance between the melted points from my sample was 6cm.
I guess nobody commented on this because saying 6 cm is
I have some pictures of the board on the coure web site. The bluetooth module is just above the "Rev B" sticker in the first picture.
According to Churchill, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which no /.er ever would put.
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