Let’s play this weekend with compute bits and pieces, homemade on top of Xilinx and 高云半导体 Gowin Semiconductor Corp silicon.

Thank you Seeed Studio and 高云半导体 Gowin Semiconductor Corp for this awesome piece of super-affordable programmable hardware that revolutionized teaching of digital electronics!

Gluing a system together is what today’s projects are mostly about. That’s where OpenCores.org, FuseSOC (+Edalize), or LiteX come in handy. And the tally does not stop there.

ETFPGA team from the University of Sarajevo, brainstorming the instruction set of their own soft RISC-V picocontroller.

If you are deeply embedded in the bare-metal SW, Then read on

… with RTL power beating Assembly, shall the FPGA beat CPU in the heart of the Internet, with the marriage of custom crafted logic and immersed cooling?

… with energy becoming the non-commodity, what makes RTL win over Assembly is power efficiency without compromising the Power to execute.

For decades, people have searched for ways to make a chip that you can reprogram after manufacturing. In this video, let us explore the industry’s quest for the ultimate flex.

“…most MCUs used in robotics today have general purpose building blocks. There is not much robotics-specific in any of them… the single most interesting feature of the RISC-V ISA is the possibility of building extensions and customisations… hardware accelerated robotics…”

Back-to-school, MCC Lycée from Tešanj is launching an FPGA club for high schoolers, all based on Gowin platform… using a homebrew soft RISC5 processor from a local garage.