Thanks to the generous support of Yasme Foundation, ARRL Foundation, and many individual Open Research Institute supporters, ORI has purchased a full floating Vivado license for FPGA work. This includes the System Generator for DSP.
We are testing a setup that will make team and community use of this license possible. This is a big step forward from our current situation and will greatly accelerate FGPA design and test.
The first step was setting up a license server at a donated data center. Many thanks to Nick KN6NK for offering the time, resources, and expertise to get this working.
The second step, being tested right now, is using GitHub as a directory service for adding users and keys.
The goal is for users of the license to be able to add themselves with minimal admin overhead while asserting some reasonable control over access.
GitHub provides a way for users to get public keys. The work required of us is to script user management and periodically sync key management.
Thank you to EJ Kreiner for helping test and refine this community asset. We anticipate being able to support as many amateur technical communities and projects as possible, to get the greatest possible use from the license.
Special thanks to ARRL and Yasme. We would not be able to afford this investment without their support.