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This could be a major disruption to the open hardware movement in general. LLVM's hardware incubator, CIRCT [1], is hugely driven by SiFive people. Chris Lattne
by nickelpro 3y ago
This could be a major disruption to the open hardware movement in general. LLVM's hardware incubator, CIRCT [1], is hugely driven by SiFive people. Chris Lattner is their President of Platform Engineering.
CIRCT is the first interesting thing to happen in the EDA space in decades and I would hate to see it nipped in the bud because of this movement in its chief corporate steward.
[1]: https://circt.llvm.org/ https://circt.llvm.org/
- georgelyon 3y agoJust to clarify, Chris hasn’t been working at SiFive for about two years now (he’s working on a new startup called Modular). CIRCT itself has a number of larger companies invested in it, but it’s true that FIRRTL (CIRCT’s replacement compiler back end for Chisel) is predominantly a SiFive joint. I’m cautiously optimistic that there will still be significant investment in this piece of technology.