Standards and tools for VHDL coding

Agreed coding standards for VHDL Coding standards documented on the developer portal Tools in place to check those standards automatically as extensively as possible Firmware lifecycle to be managed via git, also starting to adopt CI practices at least for code quality checks A list of techonolgies and compilers used throughout the collaboration Common guidelines for interacting with FPGAs via TANGO devices An assessment of the different strategies used to control the FPGAs, from automated code generation based on registry file descriptors, to communication protocols. An idea of what common cores can be used or developed across the element boundaries