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New comment by adapteva in "Pavona vs. OpenTitan, why the hard fork?"

adapteva — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:56:12 +0000

Does anyone have the backstory on this?

Pavona vs. OpenTitan, why the hard fork?

adapteva — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:56:12 +0000

Article URL: https://pavona.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308287

Points: 2

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New comment by adapteva in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

adapteva — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:37:47 +0000

Exactly why we zero asic is making Platypus devices open bitstream and all tooling foss from day one...to protect the world against future evil/dumb version of ourselves.

https://www.zeroasic.com/platypus https://www.zeroasic.com/projects/wildebeest https://www.zeroasic.com/projects/logik

Of course we don't have silicon yet...so nobody here cares. I think a lot of people forget that Xilinx spent $10B+ develop their awesome devices. I figure we can do it with 1/10th of that.;-)

Starting a Chip Design Revolution

adapteva — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zeroasic.com/blog/join-the-revolution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151524

Points: 1

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New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

adapteva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:33:41 +0000

Thank you, comment made my day:-)

New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

adapteva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:31:16 +0000

Yeah, this was a big dilemman You can't compare two different compilers for two different hw targets. That would be like benchmarking GCC compiling to ARM with LLVM compiling to x86.

Thierry's synthesis scripts are really very clever, and the go way beyond our Platypus FPGA arch. We are realistic that until we have seilicon nobody cares about our arch. Releasing the work as open source, we think someone should adapt the code for all of the other targes I Yosys (xilinx, lattice...etc) so that everyone can benefit.

We contribute a lot of code to open source, but as an FPGA vendor we are not going to spend time/money optimizing compilers for our competitors:-)

New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

adapteva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:25:52 +0000

Documentation can be found in two places. What else do you need to know?

https://github.com/siliconcompiler/logiklib/tree/main/logikl...

https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/wildebeest/tree/main/archite...

New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool"

adapteva — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:22:48 +0000

I am sorry you that's how it looks...can't argue with feelings, We did everything we could to give credit. Open source SW should be a stack and every project needs a proper name as a reference. I do find the statement a bit ironic though, b/c 99% of Yosys users don't know that 99% of the logic synthesis sauce in Yosys is done by ABC.

https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/wildebeest

Open source synthesis best FPGA vendor tools

adapteva — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zeroasic.com/blog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by adapteva in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

adapteva — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:56:21 +0000

No strings common share purchase means cash in hand, which implies Intel can spend it on any operational cost, including buying billions in TSMC wafers (which they already do).

New comment by adapteva in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

adapteva — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:35:46 +0000

Any strings attached? If not, ironically a big chunk of those US tax payer dollars will likely end up in Taiwan/TSMC.

New comment by adapteva in "Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World"

adapteva — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:50:30 +0000

Weird title, makes it seem like a reveleation. There have been numerous Viking treasures discovered in Sweden with traces from the the Islamic world and it's well known that they were all over England as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillings_Hoard

Learning Analog System Design

adapteva — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:00:03 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mosbius-learning-analog-system-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869945

Points: 2

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List of Semiconductor Startups

adapteva — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-semiconductor-startups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838842

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC launches first open standard eFPGA /w open-source bitstream, toolchain"

adapteva — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:07:59 +0000

The only novelty claimed here is transparency. Binary compatibility is possible by documenting the complete architecture and the sequence of bit stream loading. It only refers to devices in the same architecture (eg z1000).

We'll see whether binary compatibility is a big deal to folks. Some would argue that you can always recompile the source code. There are applications where that is not an option...

New comment by adapteva in "Zero ASIC launches first open standard eFPGA /w open-source bitstream, toolchain"

adapteva — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:03:43 +0000

First off, this is an eFPGA core not a chip. It's intended for folks who want to build their own ASICs with a small amount of embedded FPGA logic.

The LUT is a boring text book 4-LUT. Fancier versions are in the works. The point of the first standard is to be the lowest common denominator of FPGAs that anyone can implement, else the threshold is too high. Kind of like RV32I.

Platypus: Developing the "RISC-V for FPGAs"

adapteva — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:11:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zeroasic.com/blog/platypus-launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427625

Points: 5

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New comment by adapteva in "Lynn Conway has died"

adapteva — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:43:32 +0000

Oh no, we have lost another giant! Very few people in the world know the gratitude she is owed. I doubt Nvidia and the other fabless companies would exist without her contribution. I met her through DARPA in 2018 [ref] and I later reached out for advice when I started a company in 2020. She was kind and generous with her time in all of our interactions. Beyond her technical prowess, she really understood people. The community/collabroation aprpach she used to launch the VLSI revolution in the 1970's are worth studying.

RIP

[ref] https://youtu.be/W_cB8VYunY8?si=9M9QVmBipbKUXxMR&t=1414

New comment by adapteva in "They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups"

adapteva — Fri, 03 May 2024 00:41:21 +0000

Yup, got an cold email from them. Marked it as spam and never heard from them again...

New comment by adapteva in "Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC"

adapteva — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:04:40 +0000

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?