Who is your favourite FPGA guru?

Hi all,

I was just pondering the idea of "gurus" & I thought the following questions 
may hopefully make some interesting & entertaining discussion.

Including people in this newsgroup & others working in the field, whom do 
you consider to be the present-day "gurus" in FPGA system design? ...I mean 
the people who are well known & highly respected for their work & 
contributions in this field.

Who is your favourite guru & why?

:) Tony

I think Antti Lukats is one of them.

Cheers,

Ales

Tony Burch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just pondering the idea of "gurus" & I thought the following questions
> may hopefully make some interesting & entertaining discussion.
>
> Including people in this newsgroup & others working in the field, whom do
> you consider to be the present-day "gurus" in FPGA system design? ...I mean
> the people who are well known & highly respected for their work &
> contributions in this field.
> 
> Who is your favourite guru & why?
> 
> :) Tony

I would say my top 4 are Rich Katz(Nasa) for anything to do with FPGA's in 
space and general design issues. For languages and programming I would 
definitely say Jonanthan Bromley(Doulos, there are more guru's at Doulos but 
he seems to be the uber guru :-) For complex core development I would choose 
Jiri Gaisler since his Leon core worked first time (he never prototyped it 
before I tried it out!) and last but not least I read all postings from 
Peter Alfke since he is one of the great expert in the field.

Hans
www.ht-lab.com

"Tony Burch" <tony@burched.com.au> wrote in message 
news:44d72fa7$0$5107$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Hi all,
>
> I was just pondering the idea of "gurus" & I thought the following 
> questions may hopefully make some interesting & entertaining discussion.
>
> Including people in this newsgroup & others working in the field, whom do 
> you consider to be the present-day "gurus" in FPGA system design? ...I 
> mean the people who are well known & highly respected for their work & 
> contributions in this field.
>
> Who is your favourite guru & why?
>
> :) Tony
>
> 

Gurus just talk, I like DO-ers:


One guy from Germany: who could that be?

Two from Sweden (kind of): Gaisler, Bilsky

One dude from UK, his first name is Ken.

US: Is Jean Nicolle American? In any case, he is on my list for makeing
FPGAs fun!
And the guy at Lattice who wrote Mico8 and released it under GPL.

Oh, Cliff almost made it into the list...




-Bruns

Tony Burch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just pondering the idea of "gurus" & I thought the following questions
> may hopefully make some interesting & entertaining discussion.
>
> Including people in this newsgroup & others working in the field, whom do
> you consider to be the present-day "gurus" in FPGA system design? ...I mean
> the people who are well known & highly respected for their work &
> contributions in this field.
> 
> Who is your favourite guru & why?
> 
> :) Tony

burn.sir@gmail.com wrote:

> And the guy at Lattice who wrote Mico8 and released it under GPL.

> -Bruns
Do you have more input on open source IP's for FPGAs? Gordon Hands from
Lattice is looking for just that type of feedback on his blog. Gordon
was heavily involved in the Open IP cores licensing agreement and is
looking for more feedback...

Gordon writes: "I would be interested in reading comments from users on
this topic.  Does it make sense to have Open Source IPs for FPGAs?
Should Lattice be doing more of this?"

here's the link to his blog:
http://latticeblogs.typepad.com/frontier/author_gordon_hands/index.html

Regards,
Bart Borosky, Lattice

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Ray Andraka, he who mixes
the black arts (DSP stuff) with FPGAs and seems to know what he's
talking about ;-)

He and Peter Alfke would be my two nominations.



Nial

Is DSP black art? Like a painting where everything is black?
I was under the impression that signal integrity was black art/magic.


Anyway, I actually mentioned one of those two in my post :)

-burns




Nial Stewart skrev:

> I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Ray Andraka, he who mixes
> the black arts (DSP stuff) with FPGAs and seems to know what he's
> talking about ;-)
> 
> He and Peter Alfke would be my two nominations.
> 
> 
> 
> Nial

Is DSP black art? Like a painting where everything is black?
I was under the impression that signal integrity was black art/magic.


Anyway, I actually mentioned one of those two in my post :)

-burns




Nial Stewart skrev:

> I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Ray Andraka, he who mixes
> the black arts (DSP stuff) with FPGAs and seems to know what he's
> talking about ;-)
> 
> He and Peter Alfke would be my two nominations.
> 
> 
> 
> Nial

Of course, for legal reasons, I must clearly disclaim this is my own
personal opinion and not that of my employer:

Philip Freidin is one who has achieved the final goal on this particular
path and is a guiding light to the student walking the path. On a material
level, he is someone like Michelangelo for an artist.  As a user of FPGA
technology, he has affected you -- whether he has physically appeared to you
or not. Mediating on him guides your logic design.

"Eric Crabill" <eric.crabill@xilinx.com> wrote in message 
news:ebai5b$32i1@cliff.xsj.xilinx.com...
> Of course, for legal reasons, I must clearly disclaim this is my own
> personal opinion and not that of my employer:
>
> Philip Freidin is one who has achieved the final goal on this particular
> path and is a guiding light to the student walking the path. On a material
> level, he is someone like Michelangelo for an artist.  As a user of FPGA
> technology, he has affected you -- whether he has physically appeared to 
> you
> or not. Mediating on him guides your logic design.
>
>
:-)