A picture of the gatemate evaluation board with a VGA PMOD attached.

Here is the board, looking forward to explore all its features!

This is the basic #Silice VGA test, somewhat of a tradition, I always start there when adding a new #FPGA board. Who's new in this list ? Yes! Working on integrating the GateMate A1 evaluation board! Stay tuned for more info soon. #CologneChips #GateMate

Our Community Built a Chip. Tom Put It in Space. YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

Our community built a chip. Tom put it in space.

New interview with the CEO of AlbaOrbital - the Scottish startup that's launched more satellites than most countries, with zero government funding.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVeH...

Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆

We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon!

tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Thanks again to our judges and participants!

#silicon #demoscene #ASIC

GitHub - sylefeb/Silice: Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines. Silice is an easy-to-learn, powerful hardware description language, that simplifies designing hardware algorithms with parallelism and pipelines. - sylefeb/Silice

5/5 Fun facts:

'WhyNot?' was done the last day before deadline during coffee breaks and at night (starting from Warp). It has a couple egregious bugs I'll talk about soon in write-up.

Both designs are written in my own HDL, Silice, so its also a huge milestone there!
github.com/sylefeb/Silice

Tiny Tapeout - Tiny Tapeout Tiny Tapeout makes it more accessible than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

4/5 Congratulations to everyone and thanks to @tinytapeout.com for making this possible! Never have imagined doing a (winning) demoscene entry in 2026 on ASIC. This is beyond wild. I was last involved in demoscene in ~1999, I dearly miss these days. TT makes all the fun come back.

tinytapeout.com

LIVE: Casual Making YouTube video by bitluni live

3/5 All demos feature interesting approaches for graphics + music. There is no 'small demo' here: most are first time Verilog and certainly first time in ASIC! Even the simplest display or music is already a great achievement.

All demos thx to @bitluni.bsky.social :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Bh...

2/5 Amazing to win 1st place in these categories, but I want to outline how impressive and creative all the demos are. I worked on Warp in my little corner (summer vacations) and when I discovered what the community had been up to I was blown away.

All winners: tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners announced! YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

1/5 My two demos won 1st place in Graphics (Warp) and 1st place in Best for size and Single tile (WhyNot?) at the @tinytapeout.com demo competition. Huge thanks to the jury for the recognition. Means a lot to me: started hardware in 2018, and it became a big adventure.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=il_q...

Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners will be announced! YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners!

www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

Finally, we’re ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! 🎉

Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who won—and to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners.

Click “Notify me” on the stream to get an alert when we go live:
www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

come warm yourself by my 100% FPGA logic 3D rasterization pipeline… while the geometry engine (also logic) cubes.

Making Catacomb 3-D YouTube video by John Romero

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUq...

Warp (tt08 demo submission) YouTube video by sylefeb

How can you fit a retro tunnel effect with a sound track in 161x225 μm of silicon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOY...

Checkout my detailed write up on making a demo entry to the @tinytapeout.com tt08 competition: github.com/sylefeb/tt08...

#asic #fpga #graphics #hardware

Tiny Tapeout - Tiny Tapeout Tiny Tapeout makes it more accessible than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

3/3 You too can make it, it is not easy, but not as hard as you might think, checkout @tinytapeout.com here:

tinytapeout.com/

Warp (tt08 demo submission) YouTube video by sylefeb

2/3) Amazingly my two entries work: 'Warp' and 'WhyNot' ; 'Warp' is my entry to the demoscene competition and 'WhyNot' was a crazy "let's do it in one day" last minute entry. Both work on actual ASIC!! How cool is that?

Preview of Warp: youtu.be/ELOYGwZgHnw

LIVE: Casual Making YouTube video by bitluni live

1/3) Wow, TT08 @tinytapeout.com including all demoscene entries landed and I had no clue, imagine my surprise discovering all the fantastic demos (see below, thx bitluni!) on actual hardware. Kudos to all contributors and the team!!

youtube.com/watch?v=A9BhSaqL7jg

I finally got around to doing another Surfer release, so now we're on v0.4.0 🎉

My personal highlights are the new web assembly based translator system, and the improvements to our waveform control protocol, and you can read the full change log at gitlab.com/surfer-proje...

1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

“Computer graphics provide ways of simulating reality, or building fantastic new worlds, and the power to explore and manipulate those 3D worlds.”

Painting By Numbers, BBC Horizon 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-5...

Quake’s Most ICONIC Speedrun Has Fallen YouTube video by Quake Speedruns Explained

Quake speedrunning and skill has reached unbelievable new heights. Simply amazing!

youtu.be/Uu1_f3-KgtE?...

And yes, the trace has been scratched to expose copper, cut in the center, and the resistor soldered onto it. I guess all these years watching @adriansdigitalbasement.com finally payed off 😎

A termination series resistors patches onto a trace on an otherwise fine PCB.

I'm learning the hard way about termination series resistors. There's a lot more to this story, but this little 0603 51ohm resistor resolved a nightmare that's been haunting me for like ... 2 years!!! (trace is a SPI clock at 50MHz) #pcb #fpga

WolFPGA on the icepi-zero! Works great!! ( #Wolfenstein raycaster on #FPGA, no CPU, pure graphics, in #Silice)

It is a very neat board, packed with features. (Silice already has support, check it out!).

Crowd funding still open for a few hours, check it out :
www.crowdsupply.com/icy-electron...

Sylvain Munaut Brings 3dfx's 1998 Gaming Powerhouse, the Voodoo2, to the Raspberry Pi 5 One of the most popular tech products of the late '90s meets one of the most popular of the 2020s.

Sylvain Munaut has made a best-effort attempt at bringing the 3dfx Voodoo2 graphics accelerator back from the grave — as an accessory for the popular Raspberry Pi 5.

This Trick Can Double Your VGA Performance In DOS! YouTube video by Bits und Bolts

An interesting #retrocomputing channel by Bits und Bolts

#retrogaming #MSDOS #Windows95 #Windows98

RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a new Hacking Challenge - Raspberry Pi New A4 stepping of our RP2350 microcontroller now available, with security and other improvements. Plus: another RP2350 Hacking Challenge!

Raspberry just addressed several issues in the RP2354 - really great to see, and very cool post. Plus, there is a new hacking challenge ;)

www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-...

🚀 Our paper "Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication" is out! | Xavier Chermain 🚀 Our paper "Atomizer: Beyond Non-Planar Slicing for Fused Filament Fabrication" is out! We’re thrilled to share our latest work, published in Computer Graphics Forum and SGP 2025. Atomize...

A fantastic result, finally getting rid of layers, filling the part with optimized free-form (well spaced, near constant flow) paths! "Spaghetti"? Yes, but these are ordered in a sequence and can print without collisions. Amazing work by the team!

#3dprinting

www.linkedin.com/posts/xavier...

Congratulations!!

My thesis is now published online! 🎉

urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Playing with buffers 🟢 Playing with buffers 🟢: With webgpu.hpp Resulting code: step031 Vanilla webgpu.h Resulting code: step031-vanilla Before feeding vertex data to the render pipeline, we need to get familiar with the ...

3/3 As always, thanks Elie for a great WebGPU resource and the life saving note in the page: eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/...