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added index to hikmicro hacking part 1
worked on cleanup of yosys4gal
removed "post" tag from slide decks

content/blog/hikmicrothermal/index.md

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+---
+title: Hacking Hikmicro part 1
+description: Reverse engineering the Hikmicro Pocket C to understand the image format
+---
+
+I recently picked up a Hikmicro Pocket C thermal imager, since
+my old Seek Thermal was becoming too annoying to use. The Pocket
+C is a standalone device with a much better sensor. It supports
+radiometric images as well as radiometric video and USB radio.

content/blog/yosys4gal/yosys4gal.md

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 ## A history lesson
 
-During the semiconductor revolution, a dilemma appeared: Designing new ICs
+During the semiconductor revolution, a dilemma appeared: Designing new integrated circuits
 required a lot of time and effort to create the mask, and iteration
-expensive. Due to limited compute capability, ICs could not be complex designs.
-tools/compute to do tasks like optimization or place-and-route were limited.
+expensive. Due to limited tooling, ICs could not be complex designs.
+Techniques and tools to do tasks like optimization or place-and-route did not exist or were primitive.
 And what if you wanted a low-volume design? Programmable Logic Arrays (PLAs)
 were an early approach to these problems. The idea was simple: create a
 flexible logic architecture that could be modified later in the process to
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ electronically-erasable, 22-pin programmable logic block, which had up to 10
 outputs that are registered and used for feedback. These outputs can be tri-stated
 to give greater flexibility.
 
-![A figure shows the Output Logic Macrocell, or OLMC. The OLMC consists of a D Flip-Flop, feedback routing, and 4-to-1 mux to select behavior](gal_olmc.png)
+![A figure shows the Output Logic Macro-cell, or OLMC. The OLMC consists of a D Flip-Flop, feedback routing, and 4-to-1 mux to select behavior](gal_olmc.png)
 
 ## Back To Today: GALs in the 21st Century
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ GALs operate at 5 volts is useful when interfacing with older systems and
 removes the need for a level shifter.
 
 
-However, this isn't all great. Programming GALs is an exercise in frustration.
+In practice, this isn't all great. Programming GALs is an exercise in frustration.
 Take a look at a basic combinatorial assembly file:
 
 ```PALASM
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Not particularly.
 Well, there is a niche use case. These parts are 5-volt tolerant, and
 come in DIP packages. If you needed some basic glue logic when working on an
 older 5 volt system, you might want to have a few of these and a programmer
-instead of a collection of 74-series logic. At the very least, these chips can
+instead of a collection of 74-series logic. These chips can
 emulate any 74-series chip, and can reduce a multi-chip design to a single
 chip. The DIP form factor makes it much easier to breadboard, and the chips
 have zero start up delay.

content/decks/decks.11tydata.js

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