Month: November 2025
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The Innate Urge to Craft a Custom Processor
For a very long time I have been troubled by the idea of working on a custom processor design. The idea does not stem from a necessity. I do not have a use case in mind that will need a custom processor. The hard processors that I have access too are good enough for most
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Why Some FPGA Stages Are Tool-Locked
When I first started working with FPGAs, I was surprised to find that while I could simulate my design almost anywhere, I couldn’t just pick a different tool to synthesize or program my FPGA. Vivado for Xilinx, Quartus for Intel and so on. It felt like being locked into a single ecosystem. The narrative is