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#428 – Setting Fire To The Tracks

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Dave returns from his walkabout to talk with Chris while he’s shivering in Chicago (-23F the day of recording). They discuss dev boards, new chipsets, machine learning, checklists, high speed design, microcontroller features and much more!

#423 – Open FPGA Toolchains at 35c3

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In this special episode recorded at Chaos Communication Congress (35c3), Piotr Esden-Tempski, Clifford Wolf and Dave Shah talk about the state of open FPGA toolchains and the recently announced nextpnr toolset.

#397.5 – An Interview with Loial from Krontech

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Loial Otter from Krontech talks with Chris around the challenges of signal processing inside high speed cameras and making VFD based watches.

#395 – An Interview with Luke Valenty

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Luke Valenty of TinyFPGA.com joins Chris to talk about creating FPGA devices and using open source toolchains to control them.

#375 – An Interview with Tim “Mithro” Ansell

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Tim “Mithro” Ansell joins Chris to talk about a range of hardware project which include a tiny USB key, a powerful HDMI capture/buffer and upcoming FPGA training

#374 – An Interview with Claire (née ‘Clifford’) Wolf

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The architect and creator of the first open source toolchain for FPGAs, Claire Wolf talks to Chris about logic synthesis, reverse engineering bit streams, formal verification and why the RISC V processor matters.

#342 – Our first in-person show

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Chris and Dave finally record The Amp Hour from the same room while Chris is visiting Sydney. Discussions about manufacturing, FPGAs, meetups, sci-fi and more!

#325 – An Interview with David Kronstein (Tesla500)

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David Kronstein (tesla500) joins us to discuss the design of his high speed camera, the Chronos 1.4. Lots of technical detail about camera sensors, FPGAs and how to put the whole thing together.

#317 – A Decoupled Episode

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Dave and Chris give their opinions like usual…just not while talking to one another. A “call and response” format gives a new perspective on how we discuss news.

#277 – Interconnectorama

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Chris and Dave discuss the woes of designing in cabling and how to avoid the situation altogether. Also CAD programs, ordering out of magazines, “new” silicon valley, even more mergers…and more!

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