Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering(pinetreelabs.github.io)
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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering
https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html
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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.
I was under that impression too, like an alternative to PYNQ https://github.com/Xilinx/PYNQ
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?
Its specifically meant for control systems no?
hardware engineering is a very broad field and the title is misleading
hardware engineering is a very broad field and the title is misleading
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.
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.
It's C codegen using casadi under the hood. Most embedded systems can compile some form of C.
Good luck displacing MATLAB, it's great there's an OSS alternative here.
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/
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/
Pathsim is a block diagram-based simulator written in Python and seems to be getting very regular commits https://github.com/pathsim/pathsim
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.
(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.
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.
Oh well I guess the Archimedes wasn’t that we’ll known.