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This appear to use a Cyclone FPGA from Intel, which was previously Altera: https://www.altera.com/

It will be interesting to see how this compares to some of the existing designs based around the Lattice ICE40. The Lattice FPGA programming information was reverse engineered and this triggered a lot of interest around the open source toolchain and many boards were designed around this FPGA:

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/

https://www.tindie.com/products/Folknology/blackice-ii/

http://icoboard.org/

https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/iCE40/iCE40HX1K-EVB/

https://blackmesalabs.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/icezero-fpga-...

https://www.crowdsupply.com/qwerty-embedded-design/beaglewir...




The article mentions every other chip but fails to mention Intel name. It just skips with "based on an FPGA chip". Why?

They call out every other chip with excruciating detail. This bothers me.


Are the Cyclone development tools open source?

I kind of like the idea of an FPGA-based Arduino, but I definitely wouldn't like them moving to closed source software.




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