Guest Video: OpenTechLab - IcoBoard FPGA Experiments 

This 1st vacation proxy video is definitely a winner! Thank you Joel and thank you Dave for choosing Joel

It's really nice of you to give other channels a chance by giving them a forum. Respect!

His body moves but his head stays still... I like him !

Never heard about Open Source FPGA development.. We are indeed living in a wonderful time!! Subscribed!!!!!

I'm not particularly into FPGAs, but I love the fact that you took a pretty simple FPGA hat for the blinky and didn't use something overly complicated (for beginners) like the DE0-Nano - Altera Cyclone IV FPGA

@OpenTechLab thank you for your great and important work! Exactly the chanel i searching for!

Subscribed, great video!

Happy that OpenTechLab got this spot! Such great content deserves a bigger audience.

Im not an electronics guy, but i just wanted to say that introduction was great, clear, concise and short.

Great video as always Joel! Finally this channel gets the exposure it deserves :)

Great overview. Would love to see a full course on FPGA using only FOSS tools. Super cool, thank you Joel !

You made FPGAs very accessible. Jumping over to pt2 very eagerly!

We from the FOSS world love EEVBlog even more for sharing your popular platform to shred some FOSS light on others.

Thanks Dave for choosing Joel

The guest videos are a very nice idea. Thanks Dave and Joel! edit after watching the whole video: Thanks aswell for remotivating me to get into FPGA and especially VHDL coding again! :)

This is almoast like the EEV blog channel has been open sourced. Really nice to promote other channels like this!

First decent video in years. Subbed.

great video. you got a new subscriber. Probably gonna bingewatch a dozen videos from your channel now.

Absoluetly superb video! Thanks, Joel!

Glad to see you made it on buddy, love your stuff!

Great presentation Joe, now about to subscribe. Great work, thanks!

This is really cool, Dave. We viewers discover all new sources of interesting content thanks to the guest videos. And the channels for which you provide the stage of your channel get tons of new subscribers and hopefully this will get them to create even more awesome content.

Congratulations Dave and Joel, a home run on the first guest video. FPGAs and Open Source, including RISK-V, is more that I would have thought to ask for.

Great production quality. Subbed.

great video! What was fun to me to notice is, that the base board is seemingly done by a company only about half an hour drive from my home. What are the odds!

Subscribed, excelet work man!

Dave made a good choice, and you've made a great video. It fits this channel very well.

Outstanding! Thanks.

Great video as usual. Cool to see an FPGA device with open source tools.

Fantastic video, subbed!

Wow, that’s some real quality content right there, thank you! Always wanted a beginner FPGA intro and this is perfect. Now I’ll have to get one of those boards..and a newer raspberry pi.

Very nice presentation Joel, Thanks Dave for giving others a chance.

Great job Joel! - Really interesting video, these FPGA's are so cool!

Interesting video, thanks for making it.

How small the world is - when I heard "Clifford Wolf" I recognized the name. And sure: Clifford Wolf the FPGA Guru, is also the OpenSCAD developer Clifford Wolf.

I LIKE IT - flashy bling (edge) too! Nice review.

I was loking for a good FPGA intro. Thanks. Subbed !

Very cool, subscribed!

Awesome that we are getting to see new faces.

Great video. Thanks

Great video Joel, I've wanted to get into FPGAs for a bit but so far been baulked by the the complication and expense... subbed to your channel :)

My favourite new channel as a guest at my favourite old channel

Joel - great video, subbed.

I only found your channel about a month ago,,, your stuff on sigrok is awesome and now the ice40, well done. Welcome to the bigtime :-)

I've never worked with Opensource toolchains on FPGAs before. If I we're to pick this FPGA showed in the video for my next project, is there a public collection of IP cores out there? I've worked with Xilinx Vivado and ISE before and really liked the IP catalog they have (although they are obviously not freely licensed). If I want a dual clock FIFO on the Lattice, am I going to need to program that myself or are these kind of things already out there (with free license)?

I have NFI what most of that was, but I was still so intrigued!

This is a wonderful idea for a side series. EEVblog is definitely the goto for EE & Electronics!

Cool! Keep it up!

First thing I thought of seeing this board was the 1Hz to 10hz sound detection FPAG design from an Evolution Algorithm in 2006.

Dave - great idea, great choice. Subscribed.

"Guest Video" i like the concept thanks you 👍👍

Timely topic, especially relevant for me, as I've been getting VERY tired of using the Xilinx tools with my Spartan6 boards. Excellent organization, structure and narrative. Ideal content, in both scope and functionality. My only content wish would be for a quick trip through a simulation pass for this very simple design, since it is not revisited in the second video. The only tiny production nit I can pick would be to make the audio leveling more uniform. Great job!

I like it, subscribed already.

Joel is awesome, subscribed!

Hey Joel. Great Video. Thankyou :) - Subscribed

Ass allways Daves share with us excellent content. Sucribed, excelent video, I see the second part and waiting for more.

Yayyyyy, FPGA voodoo magic!!

Open source FPGA, OMG! This is the best thing ever.

What do you use for video editing? You said its all open source and ive been looking for something like that for a long time,

Great idea of Daves ive subed

this is easily your best content in the past few weeks. If at any point my sub list grows to high..he will take your spot lol jk. (but you did get him a sub) Thanks

Nice FPGA Videos :D

I have Xilinx's software installed on my PC. I use their graphical "schematic" tool to draw logic circuits. Has anyone created a similar tool for these open source tools, or is it programing only?

Woohoo! I already watched this on the OTL channel

Subscribed. Also, couldn't you just update whatever version of Raspbian the icoBoard crew provides on their website?

Strewth, Dave's been taking elocution Lessons! Finally, I can understand him. :)

What video editing software are you using on Linux? Still looking for a decent one.

Very nice video! Finally some serious FPGA stuff on the channel. ^^ Does this open source toolchain also support VHDL?

Impressive - I've been looking at these things for a few months and figured they were too involved to mess with. But this makes it look a little more manageable. My first thought is how it visually looks like it could handle a neural net. To what end I don't really know, but I think it's worth investigating further. Any suggestions on a good verilog book? Thanks for the excellent introduction.

Doesn't appear to be a way to get this board in Australia, without paying more than its cost in shipping. Any ideas where we can get it?

what do you do the video in?

Seems as an interesting channel. Subscribed.

What open source video editing software are you using ?

Awesomeness! Always thought FPGAs were a little over my head really.... but maybe not? Will sub & look - Thanks Joel :)

Dave should go on vacation more often!!!

Very nice. But it feels like it's all been done in 1 breath. Subscribed :)

Really glad Joel's channel got some exposer. Check out his great videos on logic analysers.

On the compile section it looks like you've got 2 or so cores on the Pi and you're not using all of them, because CPU usage is stuck at 50%. Maybe make -j2 or -j4 should be used?

Am I the only one who was completely lost for the last 21 minutes of this?

Hey Joel, greetings from the Richmond Maker Labs :)

I like the new Dave, seems fun :) Let's have him on once a week =)

Been on embedded design for over a decade now. Feels like this video would make me try out FPGAs. The support for open development was piss poor a decade back. Gotta start off now, nothing better than being able to make your own glue logic for embedded systems!

awesome

8:19 It's funny, I didn't notice them until you told me. And is there an open source toolchain for the Altera and Xilinx FPGAs as well? Right now I have a cheap Cyclone II board + USB Blaster clone. I've also seen some cheap Cyclone IV and Spartan-3E boards. I say this because for big projects with lots of logic elements, like video encoders and probably cryptocurrency miners, this chip is a bit small. It's, however, very good to get started and there are lots of projects you can do with this FPGA. And I subbed to your channel!

Fun video...

Awesome, i always wanted to do something with an FPGA but all the time, i was concerned about the toolchain and also the philosopy of the companies, giving the hardware FPGA boards away for a "few" bucks, but wanted to get some sort of "return on investment" when you want to do soemething, you either do it on your own, or buy some software modules which will to it on the FPGA for you but they don´t come cheap anymore...

Better than most of Dave's videos tbh. Boy, does Dave ramble...

I think those huge install sizes come from the windows culture. on linux, file sizes are usually much more reasonable, only a few megs being all that's really needed to contain the entire executable and a few text config files, even the "installer" itself if it's an installable package. actually, more common are executables of only a few kilobytes. the smaller file sizes will also run a bit faster too. maybe it's just a historic remnant from the time when everything came on cd's, and they would fill it with all kinds of crap just because they could. hard drives also became bigger as time went on, meaning they could worry about space usage less and less. meanwhile you get linux and all its programs from the internet, where size matters much more. a smaller download size means much less bandwidth used to host those files, and the hosting is often sponsored, so even more important to keep sizes small. as well as people from around the world freely working at optimizations if they so choose. a corporation on the other hand, costs them much money to do such optimizations. short term it saves them money, but there are penalties at the user end.

This video was edited in open shot? if so nice one, I love linux ubuntu is your friend. You should do a video on how you edit your videos

Wow, I wonder how the compiler branches from a sort of a cpu module inside an FPGA instead of some sort of digital logic. Also can you short out an FPGA by accident and destroy it?

open source hardware, wooooooooo!

If you are interested with FPGA's have a look at the Jerri Ellsworth channel and her FPGA SDR Radio series, you will need a VDHL++ compiler, If you are going with a Raspberry Pi why not go with the Pi-Drive which should be able to store the Jessie OS for ARM and your applications.

Nice.....

Lost me at 19:32. How can a bitstream make gates?

90mins waiting for it to compile then writing code just to flash some LEDs. Is there a precompiled version? You assume everyone already knows linux commands and what code to write and how. I wouldn't know where to start.

There's also www.myhdl.org/ which can be used to render to vhdl / verilog from python

Hmmmm for the last 3 blocks I think it implemented it like flip-flops connected as slaves to the register as master in order to get the multiplied clock signal from the output

at least us pommies can get on an aussie youtube channel, even if we can't win a cricket match. Small victories!

I kinda want to learn FPGA-fu and try making a simple Engine ECU out of it.

I've subscribed mainly because I don't understand FPGAs so hoping to learn something, well anything is possible