One Demoboard, Many Breakouts: Bridging FPGA Prototyping and Open-Source ASIC Tapeout
summary
A tiny FPGA breakout called FabricFox plugs into the TinyTapeout demoboard and runs the same pinout and APIs as the ASIC breakouts, letting designs move from simulation to live hardware and back with one-to-one mapping to ASIC breakouts. The flow hardens via local tools or GitHub Actions, loads a .bin into bitstreams with three-command workflow, and exercises MicroPython SDK plus micrococotb hardware-in-the-loop testbenches (VGA demos, SHA-256 tests) — proven on sold-out first batch hardware.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54Bridging FPGA and ASIC tapeouts
- 3:39Three-step workflow
- 5:46Hardware-in-loop testing
- 9:54MicroCocotb VGA demo
- 10:36Open-source resources
- 11:18Q&A
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