[libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 22may2020

[Cole Poirier]

> On May 22, 2020, at 6:56 PM, Cesar Strauss <cestrauss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cole and all,
> 
>> On 05/22/2020 16:10, Cole Poirier wrote:
>> Would you mind giving a one line description here of what Cesar does?
>> I'd be interested to know as well.
> 
> I work in a research institute, on data acquisition and control of
> scientific instruments for astronomy.
> 
> Let me expand a bit on that.
> 
> Some of the projects I'm involved, past and present:
> 
> 1) Microwave receivers for a 14 m radio telescope.
> 2) Control of a 26-element radio interferometer array
> 3) Image acquisition for an infrared camera
> 4) Data acquisition for a X-ray detector in a stratospheric balloon.
> 5) Miniaturized version of the above, to fly on a nano-satellite (2U
> cubesat)
> 6) Spherical-mass gravitational wave detector
> 
> Some phenomena that the scientists observe with the above:
> 
> 1) Molecular clouds and star formation
> 2) Variability in the active nuclei of galaxies (quasars)
> 3) Accretion disks around black holes
> 4) Gamma ray burst
> 5) Solar flares and coronal mass ejections
> 6) Space weather
> 
> Some technologies I use:
> 
> 1) Data acquisition and remote control of voltmeters and spectrum
> analyzers via RS-232, GPIB, Ethernet and USB
> 2) Multi-channel analog data acquisition boards
> 3) Microcontrollers like 8051, PIC, ARM Cortex, Arduinos
> 4) FPGA for glue logic, data acquisition and signal processing
> 5) Single-board computer
> 6) Cryogenics for low noise temperature radio frequency receivers
> 
> Software tools:
> 
> 1) GCC, C/C++ compiler for the PC and some microcontrollers
> 2) SDCC, C compiler for smaller microcontrollers
> 3) Icarus Verilog for FPGA simulation
> 4) gEDA/gaf, Pcb and Gerbv for PCB design
> 5) Python, for quick prototyping, data processing, plotting.
> 6) R, Octave, for data processing
> 
> My motivation to participate in Libre-SOC:
> 
> A libre, supported, fully documented SoC, free of proprietary drivers,
> firmware and bootloaders, that I can trust to use in my workstation,
> server and as building blocks of scientific instruments.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cesar

That’s some wildly cool stuff Cesar! Thanks for sharing, I’m excited we’ve got you as a new member!