| ▲ | UncleOxidant 2 hours ago | |
I guess I've had several of those moments over the last year and a half. But a recent one was that I was working with Claude to create a spiking neural net MNIST classifier in an FPGA for a demo. Claude took it from concept to PyTorch, to training (training a Spiking neural net isn't necessarily straightforward - that's a whole post in itself, but Claude came up with a working solution), and then to implementation in Verilog and through synthesis into the FPGA. I asked Claude to create a drawing app to run on the PC side that would allow the user to draw a digit with a mouse and then click a classify button. The data from the digit drawing app was to be transferred via USB to SPI to the FPGA. I didn't have a SPI adapter yet (it was on order from Adafruit) so I asked claude to let me communicate with the simulated verilog code running in the Verilator simulator, through a virtual SPI interface. Then I went to lunch. I came back to see the digit drawing app displayed on the monitor. I drew a '2' and it classified it as a 2. In another window I could see the Verilator simulator running and the data being passed. Chills. | ||