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mosaibahtoday at 1:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

The gap this closes is real. IceStorm and Apicula gave you open tooling but you were still loading bitstreams onto someone else's closed fabric. Yosys/nextpnr same story. Aegis is the first time the fabric itself is auditable, which matters a lot for anyone building hardware that needs a complete trust chain from RTL down to GDS. The wafer.space + open PDK path makes it actually tapeout-able, not just a simulation exercise. Curious how the LUT4 fabric competes on density against GF180 commercial offerings, that's usually where open implementations get humbling


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fecal_hengetoday at 7:05 PM

How do you verify that the fab produces the design authentically? They could create a security vulnerability only they know how to exploit.

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logicchainstoday at 5:41 PM

How far away are we from being able to run a hobby Linux on something like that, a completely hardware-backdoor-free system?

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