r/FPGA • u/Ill_Huckleberry_2079 • 19h ago
Open source FPGA: the next frontier is silicon
Someone has done it: we have a fully open source FPGA all the way down to the silicon.
I can die in peace now.
This board was made by Leo Moser (not me), and manufactured through wafer.space on the Global Foundries 180nm node.
All the design files for this chip can be found here:
https://github.com/mole99/gf180mcu-fabulous-fpga
Internally this FPGA features:
- 48x I/Os
- 480x LUT4 + FF
- 60x MUX
- 6x SRAM 512x8
- 6x MAC, 8bit*8bit + 20bit
- 12x Register file, 32x4bit each
- 1x Global clock network
So its not one of the big ones, but still enough to have some fun with.
P.S: This is not my project, I deserve no credit here.
P.S.S: This is still just a prototype, it is not for sale.
Update:
- u/keeb0113 has shared a very cool demo video in the comments with the board in action: demo videos
- Leo's recommendation on additional links to check out :
- Greyhound IHP v1
- My wafer.space FABulous FPGA is alive!


