[amsat-bb] Good news - Floating Vivado license available for community use

[Michelle Thompson]

Good news - if  you are working on open source amateur radio satellite FPGA
code, we have a resource available for you.

Thanks to Yasme Foundation and ARRL Foundation support, Open Research
Institute has purchased a floating Vivado license (Vivado HL System
Edition). This includes the System Generator for DSP.

The only requirement is that the work be open source and publicly
accessible.

The license files are distributed through a Github key management function,
so if you already have a GitHub repository, then you are ready to go. Get
in touch with me with your GitHub account name to start setup.

The process has been tested but I'm sure some snags will be revealed as
more users come onboard.

If you are working on AMSAT-NA closed source FPGA work, then there are at
least two older node-locked Vivado licenses available. You should already
have access to those from within engineering.

There's a lot of really great opportunities to implement LDPC and other
high-performance error correcting codes, along with finite state machines
and camera support.

Does anyone have a need for another type of license? If there is something
standing in your way of getting things done, please let me know.

-Michelle W5NYV