I am happy to announce that we (@Vicharak_In) have teamed up with @mnwsth and Prof. Manish Jain from @iitgn to work on TSMC mature nodes and bring some real tape-out projects to reality.
It is only a matter of time before we have successful tape-outs, prototyped. I am delighted that enthusiastic professors like @mnwsth and Prof. Manish Jain exist in India today, with a passion for building technical projects and developing the kind of ecosystem India needs right now.
shrike-gen now supports flashing thanks to @deeempak of @Vicharak_In
New:
+ Flashing
+ Multi-module support
+ Explicit top module
CLI Makefile scaffolding, build & flashing for Renesas SLG47910V (ForgeFPGA) & the Vicharak Shrike Lite board.
https://t.co/JMLa2mXrfq
#FPGA
I have been asking renesas for a cli tool for ages to work with Shrike . Seems like it @VulcanIgnis had a better plan he did it himself.
Crazy work , check this out
Finished shrike-gen for @Vicharak_In Shrike lite board and SLG47910V (Rev BB) FPGAs.
shrike-gen enables Makefile based project creation and build without having to use Renesas' Go Config GUI nightmare.
Finally I am free from the GUI nightmare.
Stay tuned!
@Vicharak_In
I almost completed writing a full CLI only, makefile based development workflow for shrike. WIP. Some more reversing needed. Once finished I'll post to github.
@AksharVastarpar@deeempak
what people don't understand about @Vicharak_In shrike-lite is that even if you don't want to use the fpga you get 37 (23+14) pin on rp2040 which is 11 more then what pico gives , how these +14 pin work is we create a gpio expender in fpga and then they show up as rp's pin extension .
All that for the Same price for pico and that fpga is always there for you to try things on.
Seamless for a user who, does not care about fpga.
Wrote this blog on the journey of bringing up the @Vicharak_In Shrike from a bare pcb to full infra it has now.
A lot of problems might sound naive as it was my first board to bring up and @AksharVastarpar decided to believe a newbie to do the job.
https://t.co/IhJ52M6Bj3