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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

99 points by i_don_t_know - 12 comments
Lio [3 hidden]5 mins 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.

dcreater [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Its specifically meant for control systems no?

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

ok123456 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's C codegen using casadi under the hood. Most embedded systems can compile some form of C.
i_don_t_know [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
uoaei [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
mkoubaa [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What's the relationship between this and Model Based Systems Engineering, if any?
f1shy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What are the similitudes?
krapht [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Good luck displacing MATLAB, it's great there's an OSS alternative here.
fluorinerocket [3 hidden]5 mins 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.
Onavo [3 hidden]5 mins 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 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Pathsim is a block diagram-based simulator written in Python and seems to be getting very regular commits https://github.com/pathsim/pathsim
anigbrowl [3 hidden]5 mins 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.