FPGA Project

Mark Renker

05 Aug 2025

The explosive growth in popularity of AI-based tools has accompanied similar interest in the chip technologies that fuel them. As a music technology enthusiast but admitted novice in building and sharing what I create, I have wanted to get my feet wet in these domains that are currently generating so much interest, but struggled in coming up with something to work on that both interests me and could be of some use to others.

I think I’ve finally come up with something to start with, which is an FPGA-based transient designer. More to come!

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