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• smj-edison
  As someone who has only dabbled with FPGAs before, this is incredible to see all the steps end-to-end for silicon development! I feel like the articles I've read always leave out details in one part or another, so it's interesting to see all the nix dependencies and build steps.
• mosaibah
  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
• dizhn
  There's also an open source Authenticator software with the same name.
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  Bluebirt
  Neat project - there are already a couple of good open FPGA projects. Have a look at Dirk Koch's and the FABolous teams work. They are doing exceptional work.But all open FPGA projects miss the IO required for a good design. They do not have any serdes hardware nor DDR IO cells.
• blowback
  Excellent. Put me down for a couple.