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A developer tests a Cold War-era AI model on satellite image datasets using Monte Carlo simulations, finding it efficient and suitable for FPGA deployment.

AMD's Vivado 2026.1 introduces a tiered licensing model with a free BASIC tier that does not support Linux, which may disappoint FPGA developers relying on the open-source platform.

Luthira fully implements MicroGPT on an FPGA array, without GPU, PyTorch, or CPU inference loop, achieving inference speeds of 50,000+ tokens per second, demonstrating the potential of hardware-based Transformers.

AMD's Vivado 2026.1 will drop Linux support for the free tier, raising concerns among the developer community.

The article details z386, an open-source FPGA implementation of an 80386 CPU built using the original Intel microcode. It can boot DOS 6/7, run protected-mode programs, and play classic games like Doom, serving as both an educational reconstruction and a usable FPGA CPU.

Old Chinese cloud accelerator cards contain Xilinx UltraScale FPGAs that can be bought for ~$50 on Idlefish, significantly cheaper than the ~$2,100 price on Mouser.

A detailed blog series documenting the design and implementation of a scientific calculator from scratch using FPGA, covering numerical methods, CPU architecture, microcode, and hardware prototyping.

This project implements a fully functional scientific calculator in hardware using an FPGA, including a custom soft CPU, microcode firmware, and supporting tools. It provides a web-based simulator and open-source Verilog code.