Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html

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dcreater•2mo ago

Its specifically meant for control systems no?

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

i_don_t_know•2mo 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.

ok123456•2mo ago

It's C codegen using casadi under the hood. Most embedded systems can compile some form of C.

jcallaham•2mo ago

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.

Lio•2mo 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.

mkoubaa•2mo ago

What's the relationship between this and Model Based Systems Engineering, if any?

f1shy•2mo ago

What are the similitudes?

krapht•2mo ago

Good luck displacing MATLAB, it's great there's an OSS alternative here.

Onavo•2mo 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•2mo ago

Pathsim is a block diagram-based simulator written in Python and seems to be getting very regular commits https://github.com/pathsim/pathsim

fluorinerocket•2mo 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.

anigbrowl•2mo 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.

uoaei•2mo 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.

TeeMassive•2mo ago

I was under that impression too, like an alternative to PYNQ https://github.com/Xilinx/PYNQ

gugagore•2mo ago

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?

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