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Aegis – open-source FPGA silicon

by rosscomputerguy on 4/5/2026, 5:50:04 AM

https://github.com/MidstallSoftware/aegis

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by: 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.

4/5/2026, 3:04:13 PM


by: 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

4/5/2026, 1:17:20 PM


by: dizhn

There's also an open source Authenticator software with the same name.

4/5/2026, 11:24:31 AM


by: Bluebirt

Neat project - there are already a couple of good open FPGA projects. Have a look at Dirk Koch&#x27;s and the FABolous teams work. They are doing exceptional work.<p>But all open FPGA projects miss the IO required for a good design. They do not have any serdes hardware nor DDR IO cells.

4/5/2026, 9:30:20 AM


by: blowback

Excellent. Put me down for a couple.

4/5/2026, 8:56:11 AM