Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering(pinetreelabs.github.io)

126 points by i_don_t_know 183 days ago | 15 comments

Lio 183 days 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.

uoaei 183 days ago |

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.

TeeMassive 180 days ago | |

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

gugagore 182 days 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?

dcreater 183 days ago |

Its specifically meant for control systems no?

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

jcallaham 172 days 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_know 183 days 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.

ok123456 183 days ago | |

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

mkoubaa 183 days ago |

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

f1shy 183 days ago | |

What are the similitudes?

krapht 183 days ago |

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

Onavo 183 days 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/

v9v 183 days ago | | |

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

fluorinerocket 183 days 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.

anigbrowl 183 days 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.