@malita With HDMI know-how we mean that you have a basic understanding how HDMI works, how the data is encoded and transported between source and sink and what the building blocks of an HDMI image are ... Tim does a nice overview of HDMI here https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8057-dissecting_hdmi

Is the foam ESD safe?
Is it conductive?

@davidak can do, but what structure and location do we want for those?

@RexOr Note that the symbol you are using as 'beta' is most likely an sz ligature (or sharp s) and not a greek beta as the beta does not have a serif or swash at the bottom while the long s from sz has.

CE is mandatory for certain classes of equipment which we might or might not fall into, depending on the setup.

Those are GPL v2.0.

Hey @bwepngong,
Great! Please complete the coding challenge and write a GSoC 2018 application.

Thanks!
Appreciated!

Do you have any documentation about the UHS-III physical layer?

Note that we are using Eagle 7.7.0 which is basically the last offline/old-license version before Autodesk took over.
Also note that our long term plan includes switching to KiCad which has made great progress since it gets the CERN treatment.

27.9g for the footplate and 47.9g for the mountbase/skeleton.

Is it possible to record in Uncompressed 4K 4:3 CinemaDNG internally?
Yes, but only for a short period, till the memory is full.

So, let's look into two example cases:

Sounds nice and should be doable on the MicroZed.
It might be worth using decimation and keeping the framerate to avoid extensive buffering.
The obvious drawback is that connectivity via ethernet is lost.

Still doesn't make any sense to me, as there never is any missing data for any channel.

Was this further investigated since?

Very likely, but I guess we have to simply test this on a real system.

@mash: while that is a good idea for cutting/post software, this is not an option for the AXIOM Beta as there is no GPU to accelerate anything.

It is unlikely that the lens system manufacturers will disclose the information about their lenses, but of course, it is worth a try contacting and asking them.

The implementation has to be done on both FPGAs (Xilinx ZYNQ and Lattice MachXO2).
As this is a FOSS/OH project, you have to limit the design to IP without restrictions on both sides.
Using platform specific primitives like DDR I/O, SerDes or FIFOs is not as problem, as long as they are variants to a generic entity (which can be adapted to a new platform with little to none effort).

@kkvasan92: AXI is not required/desired for simulation/emulation.

@anil: With Link Training we refer to training the LVDS connection required for the Gearwork.

Yes, we have IRC, it is on #apertus @ irc.freenode.
Just join there and ask if you need anything.

@sagnikbasu: Sorry for the delay, I obviously missed your questions.

Forgot to say, the fingers look great!!!!

It looks to me like the CI palette features a number of similar pastel colours, so that would work without changing the colour tone on the boards too much. E.g. secondary set, third colour (the red) and ternary set, the last two colours should be almost perfect for the MicroZed and OSHpark boards. The plugins could use the green from the secondary or ternary set, whatever looks better.

Hands? What hands?

Bi-directional communication between ZYNQ and MachXO2 over a single LVDS pair (half duplex) in one case and over two LVDS pairs (full-duplex) in the other case.
Note that there is also a single ended clock line which can (and probably should :) be used for synchronization.

I don't think that this needs to be Vendor specific in any way.
I.e. you can use the Xilinx Vivado toolchain or any other (Altera Quartus, Lattice Diamond, ...) for testing and simulation, but the resulting HDL should be vendor independent.

Here a few quick comments far from being complete:

Ah, I just realized that the shields have more holes (4) than in reality (2) which needs to be corrected.

Yes, the grey version looks really nice, so if the color version had the same lightness (or maybe a tad bit brighter) it would be almost perfect :)
Still missing the labels for each part, but I guess that will be added later as a separate layer?

I liked the strong perspective of the PCB-Stack-Concept-V03-022 and the colorized black ink style very much.
This one looks to much like a preview rendering for a photorealistic model.