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You don’t need a powerhouse to develop software for such low-end FPGA either as the minimum hardware requirements include a 2,500 MHz processor, at least 512MB RAM, 128MB graphics RAM, and 750MB of free hard disk space. You can even try the beta now, after registration, with the software running on Windows 7/8.1/10 32-/64-bit, macOS v10.13 or higher, Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 64-bit, and Debian 10/11/Testing 32-/64-bit. The software hub can be used to launch GreenPAK Designer and ForgeFPGA Workshop programs, with the latter – as the screenshot below shows – appearing to rely on Yosys open synthesis suite whose code is available on Github.
The full specifications are not available yet, but the ForgeFPGA Family will come with a maximum of 5,000 gates of logic, and the first devices ship with 1K and 2K Look Up Tables (LUTs), and as just mentioned, will operate at ultra-low power as low as 20 microamps in standby. The company says its FPGAs consume half the power of competing FPGAs with a standby current of under 20uA, the price point will enable the use of FPGA in new markets and IoT products, and the tools will be free, at least as in beer, without any license to acquire or install. Renesas has just unveiled the ForgeFPGA family of low-cost low-power FPGA’s to go for under 50 cents in (large) volumes following their acquisition of Dialog Semiconductors last August, who previously designed the GreenPAK programmable mixed-signal matrix.