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Re:Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-ba... by rektide on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:30PM (#29313288)
5 days ago, 84 comments, a lot a lot a lot of skepticism against this company's ability to stay on a good path, not mess stuff up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29261574

here's to hoping! very good that they're trying to leverage public tooling/infrastructure. definitely an area that, with more competition, could reinvigorate & revitalize computing in powerful ways... especially if we start seeing more competition that also has high speed io too, imo, not quite present here at this ultra low price point.

the greenpak line seemed super super cool though. really cool ideas & products, way more mixed signal in a tiny cheap package than a classic fpga would have. i have little idea how capable or not it really is, given that it's a truly tiny product. but even if this never becomes a hundreds of cell line with decent io, it still feels like it has a ton going for it, and i hope it remains actively developed, very much, especially if communal tool chains get to play.

Re:Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-ba... by Rochus on Monday November 22, 2021 @08:57PM (#29313795)
It was not known then if and how open-source tools would be used.
Re:Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-ba... by detaro on Monday November 22, 2021 @08:58PM (#29313799)
the comments there already mention that yosys is used, and this article does not go into any more detail about that.
Re:Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-ba... by Rochus on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:10PM (#29313869)
There were hopes and assumptions. A comment with specific facts was added two days ago, I just saw it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29292603