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> [The FreeBSD license] is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD

> Being female or male is a fact about the biological world. I was responding to this line, which I feel marginalises intersex people and could have been more inclusively worded. I…

You appear to have forgotten the existence of differences in sexual development (DSD). The chart in [1] is a good visualisation of that, if you wish to learn more. [1]: https://www…

Sorry, I really don't see where the issue is. Nothing forces you to use C++ scripting here; Yosys has a shell that you can enter commands in, and it takes via `-s` a file of comman…

...is your bugbear here that these particular scripts are written in C++ instead of Python? Yes, those flows use ScriptPass, because for the most part they are scripts. If they wer…

Reading your answers, I've noticed that there appear to be some major misconceptions about Yosys and how it works: certainly, ABC is a core part of a standard synthesis flow, but Y…

If you have any questions about nextpnr, feel free to email me at lofty@yosyshq.com.

Well, at least part of this comes down to the fact that we did not choose a scripting language today, but at least a decade ago where Tcl was dominant in EDA and Python would not h…

> > full disclosure: I work for YosysHQ > let me take this opportunity to ask a question about something that makes absolutely zero sense to me: why did yosys insist on sticking wi…

I should point out that even the F4PGA page [admits]( https://f4pga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how.html ) that ECP5 and iCE40 support is done through nextpnr, rather than VPR. (actua…

full disclosure: I work for YosysHQ, who have an alternative open-source place-and-route program - [nextpnr]( https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr/ ) - and YosysHQ presently has [a g…

DIre SIlicon DeXtrously Concatenates 8 and 9 (for SysV). Jubilee[1] came up with that and it's a useful mnemonic. [1]: https://twitter.com/workingjubilee

I asked whitequark about the name; it's named Glasgow because it's where the headquarters of FTDI are based, and the initial prototypes were intended to be an open-source serial ad…

Distributing GCC does.

GOWIN's design is very similar to the ECP5 in architecture, but the bitstream formats are notably different.

Could you please point [6] at https://github.com/nmigen/nmigen which is the new upstream after a hard fork? Additionally, I'd like to clarify that nMigen generates Verilog indirect…

There are three killers here: self-modifying code, synchronisation, and parallelism, all of which are major headaches for a JIT. The PS3 does not have self-modifying PPC code (SCEI…

> There are no plucky garage shops or "wise crowds" making FPGA tools that are even in the same galaxy as ISE or Vivado. Symbiotic EDA comes to mind. However, I would argue they do…

But modding a PS2 only requires a memory card with FreeMcBoot on it (it's literally plug and play), and at that point you might as well use an updated version of Linux like frno7's…

With the PlayStation 2 you can run Linux on MIPS[1], though it's a highly nonstandard MIPS; you'll need to get a memory card with FreeMcBoot. Plus, even if you plan to do embedded …

Which is why you implement a doubly linked list using data indices in a Vec . The resulting data structure is fully safe and resembles an ECS.

Rust is safe from race conditions, because race conditions are memory errors. You should read [1] to understand how Rust achieves this. [1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/send-…

So, I consider myself a MIPS fan, having studied the early (SGI era) MIPS revisions, but if I started from a clean sheet, I would pick RISC-V over MIPS, because while MIPS is a fai…

I'm curious how you plan to detect dependencies from a file by piping it through a command that removes those dependencies.