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

[Michelle Thompson]

Rounded up another node locked license for a total of three.

-mdt

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020, 14:19 Michelle Thompson <mountain.michelle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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