Mastodawn

Well, well, well... if it isn't the second Tuesday of the month? And what could that mean? I don't know... maybe a BRAND NEW EDITION OF EL CORREO LIBRE, THE PREMIER OPEN SOURCE SILICON NEWSLETTER!
This time we have the honour to present two smashing FOSSi events, a whole bunch of retrocomputing projects and much more. Enjoy! https://fossi-foundation.org/blog/2026-01-13-ecl93

El Correo Libre Issue 93

El Correo Libre Newsletter, Issue 93

Award-winning Olof Jan 5

The number of readers of my blog has apparently doubled in 18 months. Is blogging back in vogue? Probably not, but I have some theories.

https://blog.award-winning.me/2026/01/thank-you-readers-whatever-you-are.html

Thank you readers, whatever you are

Some time ago I noticed that I had 100000 views on this blog after almost exactly ten years of occasional writing mostly about my own proje...

Award-winning Olof Dec 22

It's the time of the year for the retrospectives, and here's mine. Am I early this time? Well, it's for 2024 actually. I never got around to do one until now but better late than never as they say.

https://blog.award-winning.me/2025/12/fossi-fiesta-2024.html

FOSSi Fiesta 2024

It's time again to do one of those yearly retrospectives. Am I early being unusally early this year since the year hasn't even ended yet?...

Award-winning Olof Nov 13

Working on making sure your software is CRA compliant? Great. But what about the code in your FPGAs? No? Didn't think of that? If you needed another reason to start using FuseSoC for your IP core management, FuseSoC now supports SPDX SBOM generation to help address the supply chain challenges of modern systems.

https://blog.award-winning.me/2025/11/fusesoc-gains-spdx-support.html

FuseSoC gains SPDX support

FuseSoC now supports SPDX for creating SBOMs, making it the first FPGA/ASIC IP management system with native SBOM capabilities. This adva...

Award-winning Olof Nov 11

FOSSi Foundation Nov 11

It's the second Tuesday of the month, which of course is our favorite Tuesday of the month. Why? Because it means a new issue of El Correo Libre, the premier newsletter for open source silicon. This month we're looking at FOSSi AI from Ainekko, A new C++-based HDL from Mike Reznikov, EDA LLMs from The University of Edinburgh and much more. Enjoy!
https://fossi-foundation.org/blog/2025-11-11-ecl91