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24 alternatives to Multi-FPGA Usable Newbie Chips

Multi-FPGA Usable Newbie Chips — simple LED blinky for Tang Nano, Arty, Nexys, SuperStation with open toolchain CI and release artifacts - guilt/munch

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop

    2025 · byran.ee · its alternatives →

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    A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE - lraton/FlopperZiro

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4FU

    un0rick is a open-source ultrasound project.

    2018 · un0rick.cc · its alternatives →

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    Blinks▲169

    An open-source board game system with a mind of its own

    2018 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6IM

    Building a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver (receiver and transmitter) with discrete logic chips

    2024 · qdiv.dev · its alternatives →

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    Amazon's first quantum computing chip

    2025 · aboutamazon.com · its alternatives →

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    I am proud to present my solo hobby project NAND. This year-long undertaking follows the completed Nand to Tetris course, but ported to the web with its own runtime, user interface, and IDE. Using the "Load example program" selector, you can try out some programs I wrote on NAND's emulated hardware such as 2048, a genetic algorithm, and a manual stack overflow to corrupt the screen. Check out NAND at https://nand.arhan.sh Additionally, I've authored an extensive writeup about the project. Read about it on the GitHub repository's readme.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CHIP-8 console on FPGA. Contribute to pwmarcz/fpga-chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A 3.16M-parameter INT4 transformer running entirely in the on-chip memory of a Xilinx Kria KV260. Zero DRAM in the token loop, 59,965 tok/s on the fabric, bit-exact. Chat with it live.

    Aug 2026 · mikeayles.com · its alternatives →

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    Send video/audio over HDMI on an FPGA. Contribute to hdl-util/hdmi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Fischer, and I'm super stoked to share a project that I've been working on for a little over a year: Manta, an open-source, cross-platform, vendor-independent tool for debugging and rapid prototyping with FPGAs. This was originally my Master's Thesis at MIT, where I developed it for our course on FPGA design. We needed an alternative to vendor debugging tools, which only supported x86 machines running Windows or Linux. We were able to patch in macOS support with VMs, but as more students came bringing ARM-based devices, we needed a new tool. So I developed this. It's called Manta,…

    2024 · fischermoseley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    We wanted to do something very challenging to prove to ourselves that we can do anything we put our mind to. The reasoning for why we chose to build a toy TPU specifically is fairly simple: - Building a chip for ML workloads seemed cool - There was no well-documented open source repo for an ML accelerator that performed both inference and training None of us have real professional experience in hardware design, which, in a way, made the TPU even more appealing since we weren't able to estimate exactly how difficult it would be. As we worked on the initial stages of this project, we…

    2025 · tinytpu.com · its alternatives →

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    Hashed Lookup Table based Matrix Multiplication (halutmatmul) - Stella Nera accelerator - joennlae/halutmatmul

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bringing the power of modern AI to millions of devices

    2019 · nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    Arduino▲111

    Dual-brain edge AI computer by Qualcomm and Arduino

    2014 · arduino.cc · its alternatives →

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    A physical-aware routing codec for Intel Cyclone IV FPGAs. - 14sea/Cyclone_CRAM_Mapper

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Most affordable generative AI supercomputer

    2024 · blogs.nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    Fuze▲116

    Smart card with EMV chip

    2017 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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    EMV & chip-compatible dongle from Square, pre-launch

    2014 · squareup.com · its alternatives →

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    It is based on phase noise, consumes less than 60 LUT4s/FFs and achieves up to 7.99 bits of entropy per byte. Feel free to comment if you have any questions, ideas or thoughts :)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A turbo boost for circuit board design

    2016 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →

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    A desktop pick-and-place machine

    2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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