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11 stories tagged fpga, newest first.

Screenshot of lukaswerner.com: Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog

Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog (lukaswerner.com)

56 points by derHackerman 5 days ago | 15 comments

A student's blog post with interactive visuals explaining how they built a VGA driver in SystemVerilog on a DE10-Lite FPGA for a digital logic lab, including image display with transparency.

vga systemverilog fpga digital-logic

Screenshot of github.com: OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI (github.com)

326 points by fsbonetto 19 days ago | 371 comments

GitHub repository for openTPU, an open-source AI accelerator with RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler that runs Qwen3 and LFM2.5 on a Kintex-7 PCIe card.

tpu ai-accelerator fpga rtl

Screenshot of blog.janestreet.com: Results from the ASIC puzzle

Results from the ASIC puzzle (blog.janestreet.com)

90 points by eru 24 days ago | 43 comments

Jane Street blog post by Benjamin Devlin and Anish Singhani discussing the results and submissions from their ASIC design puzzle.

asic jane-street puzzles hardware-design

Screenshot of adaptivesupport.amd.com: Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?(adaptivesupport.amd.com)

328 points by zdw 5 months ago | 202 comments

AMD Adaptive SoC & FPGA support forum question asking why Vivado 2026.1 drops Linux support for the free tier.

vivado amd fpga linux

Screenshot of a1k0n.net: Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates (a1k0n.net)

402 points by a1k0n 10 months ago | 65 comments

Blog post describing demoscene-style entries for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: ~4000-gate ASIC designs outputting VGA video and audio without CPU or memory.

tiny-tapeout asic demoscene vga

Screenshot of github.com: Wireguard FPGA

Wireguard FPGA (github.com)

596 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 152 comments

GitHub repository for an open-source, wire-speed hardware implementation of the WireGuard VPN on a low-cost Artix7 FPGA using an open-source toolchain.

fpga wireguard vpn artix7

Screenshot of runpyxl.com: Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python (runpyxl.com)

932 points by hwpythonner 1 year ago | 250 comments

PyXL project page showing a demo video of a custom hardware processor executing Python achieving 480ns GPIO round-trip versus a MicroPython Pyboard.

python pyxl hardware-processor gpio

Screenshot of benwang.dev: Phased Array Microphone (2023)

Phased Array Microphone (2023)(benwang.dev)

560 points by bglazer 1 year ago | 179 comments

Blog post describing a 192-channel open-source phased array microphone with FPGA data acquisition and GPU beamforming and visualization.

phased-array microphone-array fpga beamforming

Screenshot of github.com: Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency

Glider – open-source eInk monitor with an emphasis on low latency (github.com)

641 points by mistercheph 2 years ago | 117 comments

GitHub repository for Glider, Modos Labs' open-source E-ink monitor project with PCB, firmware, and case designs, mirrored from GitLab.

e-ink monitor open-hardware fpga

Screenshot of furygpu.com: FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU

FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU (furygpu.com)

393 points by argulane 2 years ago | 114 comments

Homepage of FuryGpu, a hobbyist project building a fully custom FPGA-based GPU on a PCIe card for modern computers.

fpga gpu pcie hardware-design

FPGA N64 (ultrafp64.com)

374 points by AndrewDucker 3 years ago | 74 comments

Homepage of ULTRA FP64, a project billed as the world's first FPGA implementation of the Nintendo 64, showing a dev board running an N64 cartridge.

fpga nintendo-64 emulation retro-gaming