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Milkymist

presentation http://lekernel.net/presentations/Milkymist_THSF2011/mm_thsf.pdf
File:Fisl12_rejon_milkymist_20110702.ogv
Switch from National LM4550B to Wolfson WM9707 audio codec reduced audio noise by 90% in RC3.
Christopher Adam made a new Milkymist logo.

svg pdf

Lattice Semiconductor released version 3.8 of the Mico32 core, with a few minor new features and bug fixes. Most importantly for us, they clarified the license header at the top of every source file, from one that could be misunderstood by the casual reader, to one that is now fully and 100% clear to be open source. [1] [2]
David's link to Openlase [3]
Cristian Paul had ported the namuru correlator to the mm1 soc (thanks Fabrizio Tapper and Peter Mumford for valious support), this IP core will allow to speed up the correlation process for getting a fix and track gps satellites, WIP is currently going the osgps receiver that will provide a high level software interface to process navigation data tracked with namuru (link to repo, namuru specs??..)

Also with the key help of David K, the SoftGNSS matlab code is now finally ported (link to repo) to octave, this also will allow offline analysis of raw real-data for a variety gps front-ends in the market.

NanoNote

Werner's CAD tool comparison [4], [5], [6], [7]
http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/fisl12.pdf
ben-wpan testing and production process http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2011-May/008076.html
sujan and zedstar took x NanoNotes to Nepal, where they...

Ben NanoNote in Nepal

tutorial video File:Jadon_NanoNote_Hello_world_tutorial.ogv File:Jadon_NanoNote_USB_booting.ogv

Homebrew CMOS and MEMS foundry design

Andrew from homecmos project had improved a lot the process for making home-brew MEMS from a lithographic projection, by irc channel he shared last results from his lab progress, and quoted it like: "World's smallest nyan cat", checkout some pics: