Eating Rabbits: A guide to using Python to conquer FPGA video systems

Tim ’mithro’ Ansell Python is generally considered a high-level language a long way from hardware, which actually makes it an awesome tool for helping with the design and creation of hardware! Python was essential in developing the open source firmware and hardware for video capture. The system has been in use since late 2015 and used at numerous conferences such as , DebConf, and various PyCon conferences around the world. This talk will cover Python hardware description languages (HDLs) for creating “gateware” for FPGA chips or even real IC design; Python tools for deploying, programming and debugging embedded systems; and Python scripting for hardware schematic layout and design rule checking. A party for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make Think Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware afic