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by kragen 266 days ago
This sounds exciting, and the press release does a great job of explaining why.

For anyone else who was wondering, it says it's under the Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/wildebeest?tab=Apache-2.0-1-...

I didn't realize that Xilinx xc7 synthesis was officially a feature of Yosys already!

Dropping the logic depth for picorv32 on LUT6s from 17 to 6 seems like it will double the achievable frequency or more. It's especially impressive that this beats the vendor tools—but it's unclear to me if this is an apples-to-apples comparison.