When looking for a general SystemC book I narrowed down to two choices System C from the Ground Up, Second Editionand A SystemC Primer, Second Edition. I went with the first, SCFTGU. It’s a reasonable overview, in the beginner to intermediate range. Although it’s 230 pages, it does not get...

The Firefly-RK3399 can boot from either onboard eMMC, or a TF-Card Slot (microSDHC). The microSDHC is the more flexible for my usage. I’m using a Kingston 128GB microSDHC card, this makes a good sized root filesystem for the Firefly-RK3399. However, it was not easy to find info on how to...

I picked up a Firefly-RK3399 to get more familiar with 64 bit arm linux, modern Cortex-A* series SoC and virtualization on ARM. First step is to compile the Linux kernel. Board Info The Firefly-RK3399 is an ARM64 SBC, using the big-little architecture with 2x CortexA72 and 4x CortexA53. Board Info...

After many years idle I’m reviving this site to capture my technical interests. The iOS apps were removed from the store a few years ago.