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I always get excited by these kind of devices… until I realize I honestly can’t think of what I would use it for.

Anyone have plans for something like this that they would like to share? I’d love some project ideas.

I'm doing some 900Mhz ISM band SDR stuff. I'm mildly afraid, the polarfire toolchain is pretty wonky. F4PGA is wonky in a different way, but at least it's open and I know a few people using it. It would be cool if I could use F4PGA with PolarFire FPGAs.

Best application I can think of is a mid-level robot prototype. Small enough that you don't need a lot of computing horsepower, but also need lots of high speed I/O for cameras, LiDAR, etc. This is a small niche since most robots that need that kind of I/O also need much more computational horsepower.

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