Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC

Re:Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC by 0xcde4c3db on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @08:37PM (#39925161)

People have been working on it for years, but it's a lot of work when the chip vendor isn't helping to make it happen. At this point it's more akin to building reverse-engineered GPU drivers like Panfrost and Nouveau than a platform like Arduino (where AVR was well-documented by Atmel and avr-gcc already existed).

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Re:Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC by sitkack on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @09:15PM (#39925460)

The solution is to build our own FPGAs, fpgas are not more complex than any other ASIC, in fact more regular and simpler.

There are multiple fpga fabric generators

FABulous OpenFPGA PRGA Uranus

All of which could lay down a fabric that could be programmed by OSS tools.

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Re:Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC by adapteva on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:04AM (#39926416)

Yes, that's a great idea, but none of the projects you mentioned are ready for production. Who will find the building of these products?

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Re:Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC by sitkack on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:22AM (#39926495)

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