Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering (opens in new tab)

(pinetreelabs.github.io)

126 pointsi_don_t_know4mo ago15 comments

15 comments

Lio4mo ago

Given the name I was hoping this would be something specific to Arm hardware.

Oh well I guess the Archimedes wasn’t that we’ll known.

So it's software to write firmware, not software to design hardware. Not sure how ambiguous that was to others but I got the wrong impression from the title.

TeeMassive4mo ago

I was under that impression too, like an alternative to PYNQ https://github.com/Xilinx/PYNQ

gugagore4mo ago

Are the 50 for loops truly necessary in the manual C code example of a Kalman filter? At least introduce a few functions (that could be inlined and loop-fused) for some matrix operations?

dcreater4mo ago

Its specifically meant for control systems no?

hardware engineering is a very broad field and the title is misleading

jcallaham4mo ago

This is my project/blog post and yes, I've gotten that feedback a couple of times. I mostly work in control systems and probably reflexively think narrowly about that context. But it's definitely tailored to controls - I wasn't intentionally trying to oversell it or anything.

i_don_t_knowOP4mo ago

It’s the title of the blog post and I didn’t want to change it. But yes, it seems to focus on the specific subset of hardware engineering that’s control systems.

ok1234564mo ago

It's C codegen using casadi under the hood. Most embedded systems can compile some form of C.

mkoubaa4mo ago

What's the relationship between this and Model Based Systems Engineering, if any?

f1shy4mo ago

What are the similitudes?

krapht4mo ago

Good luck displacing MATLAB, it's great there's an OSS alternative here.

Onavo4mo ago

Well, they need to a vibe code a drag-and-drop Nocode UI first if they want to compete with Simulink.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/simulink.html

(There's also Julia and Modelica)

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/simulink-alternative-in-ju...

https://modelica.org/

v9v4mo ago

Pathsim is a block diagram-based simulator written in Python and seems to be getting very regular commits https://github.com/pathsim/pathsim

fluorinerocket4mo ago

I just revised Matlab to do some work involving a simulation and Kalman filter, and after years of using python I found the experience so annoying that I really welcome this library.

anigbrowl4mo ago

(Side note: While running Python itself on a microcontroller is growing in popularity for educational and hobby applications, there’s no real future for pure Python in real-time mission-critical deployments.)

Bridging the two could be a real win for people using hardware like the M5Stack ecosystem, which has a wealth of peripherals and a robust Python stack.

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