Timothy Ansell - Xilinx Series 7 FPGAs Now Have a Fully Open Source Toolchain!

You should be super excited about FPGAs and how they allow open source projects to do hardware development. In this talk I will cover a basic introduction into what an FPGA is and can do, what an FPGA toolchain is, and how much things sucked when the only option was to use proprietary toolchains. The SymbiFlow project changed this and I’ll discuss what is currently supported including a demo of Linux on a RISC-V core with a cheap Xilinx FPGA development board.

Slides for this talk:
https://j.mp/had19-symbiflow

Read the article on Hackaday:
https://hackaday.com/?p=402168

Learn more about Symbiflow:
https://symbiflow.github.io/

Follow Tim on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mithro

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