Ladies and gentlemen! The first design for the #Gowin GW5A chip series to fully pass the whole Yosys->Nextpnr->Apicula->working-board chain!🍾 🍾 🍾

The design itself is nothing to write home about - just an inversion of the LED button, but words won't convey what kind of creepy stuff I encountered inside the chip!

I'm allowed to rest a little over the weekend:)
#fpga #sipeed #gowin #apicula

M.2 USB SSD wakes up using #ZFS and #FreeBSD. I'll leave that question for later (although I have SATA mechanical drives and it would be annoying to see wake-up failures).

I need the Linux command line to create #apicula bases. Qemu works here, which is welcome. But 10 times slower than under #DragonFlyBSD - accel=nvmm accelerator is used there. I wonder what kind of accelerators there are under #FreeBSD?🤔

Gee! Beat the last two chips!

This version of #apicula (with new bases) is able to create the whole set of workable examples from the kit!
#fpga

#apicula has reached a state where it supports enough stuff (correctly supports!) to run a little Linux!🍾

Thanks logic destroyer ( https://github.com/splinedrive/kianRiscV/tree/uLInux-tangnano20k )
#fpga #gowin #sipeed

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@yrabbit
Very exciting! But please take your time with everything, I will be happy to try it out once it's ready 😃️

By the way, I would be very interested in your thought process and the steps involved in implementing a new primitive like ELVDS in #apicula + #yosys + #nextpnr .
Maybe someday you could toot about this in detail?