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Still early days, but I disagree with some of your assertions. Seems to be a bit of an echo chamber in osh these days... The effort was not created in vacuum.

Still early days, but I disagree with some of your assertions. Seems to be a bit of an echo chamber in osh these days... The effort was not created in vacuum. -The skywater effort sits on top of darpa's openroad (I am currently on the board and so is serge) -Prof Gaillardon and Xifan created the "openfpga" open source generator and taped out a skywater and 12nm (see woset best paper) [edit: and they are the founders of osfpga] -Vaughn Betz created VTR which symbiflow is based on.[edit: and he is on the board] -Yosys/Claire has done amazing work but it was possble thanks to Alan Mishchenko's ABC. De Michelli and Gaillardon have similar package to ABC that is definitely worth a look. -The fees seem to be in line with other organizations, chips alliance, riscv foundation, etc.

newhouseb 5y ago
Thanks for connecting the dots! I'm familiar with the OpenFPGA stuff but hadn't connected it to the folks listed -- consider this an ask to have bios on the site as I evidently picked the wrong people to google. It's great to know there's more than meets the eye here beyond a vague press release I can't make heads or tails of. Looking at other hardware-related foundations (like the RISC-V foundation) there are explicit callouts for "individuals not representing a legal entity," which is where someone like myself would fit, but the bucketing on OSFPGA makes it seem like people in this group who are not students (for example, me, not that I'm particularly special) don't have a place here. (As an aside, I dislike how many orgs collapse members and sponsors into one thing, but that's neither here nor there). Finally, I didn't mean to imply that the work I mentioned came whole cloth from the respective author's heads. Sorry if what I wrote conveyed that. PS: When is Zero ASIC coming out of stealth? :)
- adapteva 5y ago
  Happy to! Looks like the website broke during updates. The bios used to be there. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Soon...

newhouseb 5y ago

Thanks for connecting the dots! I'm familiar with the OpenFPGA stuff but hadn't connected it to the folks listed -- consider this an ask to have bios on the site as I evidently picked the wrong people to google. It's great to know there's more than meets the eye here beyond a vague press release I can't make heads or tails of. Looking at other hardware-related foundations (like the RISC-V foundation) there are explicit callouts for "individuals not representing a legal entity," which is where someone like myself would fit, but the bucketing on OSFPGA makes it seem like people in this group who are not students (for example, me, not that I'm particularly special) don't have a place here. (As an aside, I dislike how many orgs collapse members and sponsors into one thing, but that's neither here nor there). Finally, I didn't mean to imply that the work I mentioned came whole cloth from the respective author's heads. Sorry if what I wrote conveyed that. PS: When is Zero ASIC coming out of stealth? :)

adapteva 5y ago
Happy to! Looks like the website broke during updates. The bios used to be there. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Soon...