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19 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2019-09-25 · latest 2025-09-27

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  1. LiteX has been a digital SOC IP library for man years. https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
    comment by tverbeure · 2025-09-27 · in Litex: The First Formal Language Learnable in 1-2 Hours
  2. …An alternative which provides documented hardware is to use an FPGA-based SoC builder, e.g. LiteX: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex Of course, this results in a significant degradation of performance... Another option would be to use…
    comment by johndoe0815 · 2024-11-02 · in Ask HN: Are There Any Fully-Documented Computers
  3. https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex they have tutorials, you can get compatible boards for around $20
    comment by ta988 · 2023-11-06 · in FPGA Dev Boards for $150 or Less
  4. There is a ton of open source stuff these days see: https://icestudio.io/ https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex https://github.com/os-fpga/open-source-fpga-resource
    comment by ta988 · 2023-11-06 · in FPGA Dev Boards for $150 or Less
  5. …able to target a simpler core to a simpler device and vice versa. https://github.com/MiSTeX-devel https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
    comment by MegaDeKay · 2023-06-27 · in AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation
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    LiteX: Build Hardware Easily
    story by teleforce · 2022-12-27 · 3 comments
  7. …blocks and IPs. E.g. if you use the f4pga+migen+LiteX stack, this looks like this in the end: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/blob/d36f98bf45c20e2f...
    comment by dayjaby · 2022-09-16 · in F4PGA: Open FPGA Tooling: Xilinx 7-Series, Lattice iCE40/ECP5, QuickLogic EOS S3
  8. …an open source toolset for making FPGA designs, you can embed an oscilloscope into your FPGA: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/wiki/Use-LiteScope-To...
    comment by dayjaby · 2022-08-02 · in Parallel Programming for FPGAs
  9. https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/wiki/Use-LiteX-on-the... Not equivalent to the Pi 4, but still runs linux. (the Acorn CLE is a rebadged NiteFury)
    comment by jamesy0ung · 2022-07-22 · in NiteFury – An Artix-7 FPGA with its own DDR3 RAM right in your laptop
  10. …is supported by LiteX, an open-source toolchain based on reverse engineering of Xilinx bitstream, https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex & https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/05/multicore-vex-in-litex/ These can be used for PCILeech DMA…
    comment by transpute · 2022-07-22 · in NiteFury – An Artix-7 FPGA with its own DDR3 RAM right in your laptop
  11. https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
    comment by blihp · 2021-05-16 · in MicroFPGA – A coming revolution in small electronics (2019) [video]
  12. …hardware toolchain. Frankly, they should target RISC-V for this. Edit again: it does, using LiteX: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex I'm not sure where Power fits in..
    comment by jhallenworld · 2021-05-10 · in OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC
  13. …There are lots of open-source (n)migen components available through the litex framework: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
    comment by ekiwi · 2021-04-17 · in Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
  14. …(such as many of its CPU core choices) since it's easy to pull in those from the Python side. [2]: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/
    comment by randomskk · 2021-02-19 · in Designing a RISC-V CPU, Part 1: Learning hardware design as a software engineer
  15. and also https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/wiki/Use-LiteX-on-the...
    comment by homarp · 2020-12-09 · in IceStick Tutorial: experience FPGA design and RISC-V using $40 FPGA device
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    Use LiteX on the Acorn CLE 215 FPGA PCI Card
    story by homarp · 2020-12-09 · 0 comments
  17. …It supports several of the cores used here. : https://fusesoc.net/ There is also the LiteX project: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
    comment by btashton · 2020-07-08 · in FPGA Softcore SoC Shootout
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    LiteX: System on a Chip Development for FPGAs
    story by bb88 · 2019-09-25 · 0 comments
  19. …popularity. It's an SoC builder, which would allow for DIY SoC's (including using a RISC V core). https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex I'm not saying it's guaranteed, but it's looking more and more possible that FPGA's using LiteX or…
    comment by bb88 · 2019-09-25 · in Xilinx FPGA Board for Arduino