<defreng>
I'm not sure if you remember me... I'm Alex - we met when you visited Jonathan's group!
<sb0>
from Zürich? sure!
<sb0>
hi
<defreng>
yes :-)
<defreng>
I just stumbled over your slides regarding an open source FPGA toolchain
<defreng>
they were pretty interesting
<defreng>
do you know of any recent developments regarding such a thing?
<sb0>
there's yosys, reverse engineering of some old fpga bitstream format (ice40 iirc), and Wolfgang's fpgatools for s6 which has surprisingly received a bit of attention recently
<defreng>
Cool! I will have a look at them
<defreng>
Btw. Artiq really impressed me. It was the first well designed software architecture I ever saw in a physics related project ;-)
<mumptai>
defreng, we share the same perspective on software in physics ;)
<defreng>
absolutely - and I sometimes have the feeling that FPGA vendor tools are also written by physicists ;)
<whitequark>
ha
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<sb0>
defreng, ha, thanks :)
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<sb0>
whitequark, by "a few years ago" I mean 2007 or so
<sb0>
i said several, actually
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<whitequark>
that's 3.09... which is kind of ancient today