My wafer.space FABulous FPGA is alive! 👏
This chip was part of wafer.space Run 1 (https://github.com/wafer-space/ws-run1), which taped out at the end of last year.
The video below shows the FPGA starting up and pulsing the two onboard RGB LEDs.
If the video doesn't play, you can also view it on PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fBWTsw5hSzG7AaeEb9tMCn
It is built using the FABulous (e)FPGA framework and the wafer.space LibreLane template. Everything is 100% open source, down to the silicon. You can find the repository with all the sources here: https://github.com/mole99/gf180mcu-fabulous-fpga
At around 500 LUTs, it's at the lower end of FPGAs. Still, it's capable of a lot, considering that it has 48 I/Os, SRAMs, DSPs, and register files.
I'm giving a presentation at FSiC (@fsi) in July. Come along if you'd like to see a live demo!
@mole99 what was AI used for in this project?
I see repo contains mixed Claude commits in several sections.
@echedellelr Personally, I don't use AI at all.
The repository of the chip does not contain any Claude commits: https://github.com/mole99/gf180mcu-fabulous-fpga
What you are referring to is the shuttle repository. It does include Claude commits because Tim uses Claude: https://github.com/wafer-space/ws-run1/commits/main/
@mole99 thx for the clarification.
I asked because I usually jump in the moment I see a single AI commit regardless where it was used, as I cannot differentiate it from other code unless I check manually other examples of code of the same person.
@echedellelr You're welcome!
I usually lose interest the moment I see any AI involvement, too. However, as we can see, it's good to take a closer look.
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