Long-time Slashdot reader ttsiod works for the European Space Agency as an embedded software engineer. He writes:
After reading an interesting article from an NVIDIA engineer about how he used a dirt-cheap field-programmable gate array board to code a real-time ray-tracer, I got my hands on the same board — and “compiled” a dual-core SPARC-compatible CPU inside it… Basically, the same kind of design we fly in the European Space Agency’s satellites.
I decided to document the process, since there’s not much material of that kind available. I hope it will be an interesting read for my fellow Slashdotters — showcasing the trials and tribulations faced by those who prefer the Open-Source ways of doing things… Just read it and you’ll see what I mean.
This is the same Slashdot reader who in 2016 reverse engineered his Android tablet so he could run a Debian chroot inside it. “Please remember that I am a software developer, not a HW one,” his new essay warns.
“I simply enjoy fooling around with technology like this.”
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Source:: Slashdot