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The Design Decisions behind the first Open-Everything FABulous FPGA

With the availability of robust silicon-proven open-source tools, IPs, and process design kits (PDKs), it is now possible to build complex chips without industry tools. This is exactly what we did to design our first open-everything FABulous FPGA, which is an example of open silicon that is designed and programmed entirely with open tools. Produced in the Skywater 130nm process node, our chip features 672 LUTs (each with 4 inputs and a flop), 6 DSP blocks (8x8 bit multipliers with 20-bit accumulators), 8 BRAMs (with 1KB each), and 12 register file primitives (each having 32 4-bit words with 1 write and 2 read ports).

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  • Originally Aired December 29, 2024
  • Runtime 40 minutes
  • Production Code 586
  • Created January 2, 2025 by
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