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SatCat5 is a mixed-media Ethernet switch that lets a variety of devices communicate on the same network.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2023-02-16 · latest 2025-09-15

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  1. have you seen https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5 ? sadly I don't have the FPGA skills to play with it, but the features are very cool
  2. …allow heap allocation. So we rolled our own [1] stack-allocated, fixed-width big integer class. [1] https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5/blob/ma...
    comment by ooterness · 2024-03-31 · in Layout of Rust's u128 and i128 changed
  3. …what we're trying to accomplish. [1] https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2020/all2020/174/ [2] https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5/blob/ma...
  4. …the cubesat/smallsat community uses Some thoughts: - You actually have a publicly available ICD at https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5/tree/ma... , please publicize this more in the readme! You're a very rare exception in…
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    Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch
    story by ooterness · 2024-03-16 · 30 comments
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    SatCat5: FPGA gateware that implements a low-power, mixed-media Ethernet switch
    story by sohkamyung · 2023-02-16 · 44 comments