Cool - it's amazing how much easier FPGA development has gotten in recent years thanks to efforts like YoSys and these sorts of frontend projects.
RISC-V has also been maturing over the same timeframe, which is bringing mainstream open-source efforts deeper into the stack of general-purpose computers.
We still don't have an open-source VLSI fab, but costs are always falling and Magic has been open-source for decades, so maybe it's only a matter of time until samizdat-style CPUs become possible :)
RISC-V has also been maturing over the same timeframe, which is bringing mainstream open-source efforts deeper into the stack of general-purpose computers.
We still don't have an open-source VLSI fab, but costs are always falling and Magic has been open-source for decades, so maybe it's only a matter of time until samizdat-style CPUs become possible :)