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FPGA digest — 2026-05-23

TL;DR

• A genuinely quiet 24 hours: of the 20 tracked sources, none surfaced a substantive new FPGA item dated 2026-05-22 or 2026-05-23.
• The only fresh signal is open-source activity: commits landed in the last 24h on enjoy-digital/litex, openhwgroup/cva6, analogdevicesinc/hdl, stnolting/neorv32, and GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow — no tagged releases, just steady upstream work.
• First-party vendor newsrooms (Lattice, Microchip, Altera, AMD) and trade press (EE Times, Semiconductor Engineering) again returned 403 / 404 / timeout from this environment. Same pattern as the bootstrap — needs sources.yaml fixes before CI runs will improve.

Official / industry

AMD / Xilinx Newsroom

• Fetch failed — gateway timeout on both newsroom.xml and newsroom.html. Same symptom as the bootstrap; the feed URL is probably correct but the environment cannot reach it.

Altera Newsroom

• Fetch failed — 404 on news-archive.html, news.html, and blogs.html. Post-spin-out URL still unresolved; needs sources.yaml correction.

Lattice Semiconductor Newsroom

• Fetch failed — 403 on both the RSS endpoint and the fallback PressReleases page. Likely UA-filtered; needs a different fetch path.

Microchip FPGA News

• Fetch failed — 403 on both candidates. Same UA / bot-filter pattern as Lattice.

Achronix News

• No significant items. Most recent post on the newsroom remains “FPGAs Find Their Voice: Achronix and the Economics of Speech Recognition” (2025-09-22) — nothing new in the 24h window.

EE Times

• Fetch failed — gateway timeout on both /feed/ and the FPGA category page.

Semiconductor Engineering

• Fetch failed — 403 on ?s=fpga search; timeout on /feed/.

Electronic Design

• No significant items in the 2026-05-22 → 2026-05-23 window (feed reachable; most recent items dated 2026-05-08 → 2026-05-19, all non-FPGA).

EDN Network

• No significant items in the 24h window (feed reachable; most recent post 2026-05-13).

IEEE Spectrum — Semiconductors

• No FPGA-specific items in the 24h window. Adjacent: a 2026-05-21 piece on Bolt Graphics’ Zeus GPU (path-tracing-first, non-AI) — not FPGA, noted only because the surrounding compute-accelerator market is the one Versal AI Edge and Agilex-AI compete in.

Open source / community

r/FPGA

• Fetch failed — Reddit blocks anonymous RSS and JSON from this environment. Carries over from the bootstrap; only resolvable in CI or with an authenticated fetcher.

Hackaday — FPGA tag

• No items in the 24h window. Most recent post on the feed remains the 2026-05-13 “Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator” entry, already covered in the bootstrap.

Hackster.io — FPGA

• No items in the 24h window.

YosysHQ blog + GitHub

• No new blog posts (the YosysHQ site has no dated news section). The Yosys release feed’s most recent tag remains Yosys 0.65 dated 2026-05-12 — outside the 24h window but worth flagging since the bootstrap did not surface it. No release in the last 24h.

LiteX (Enjoy Digital)

• No new release in the 24h window — latest tag still 2025.12 (2026-01-16). main branch did receive commits in the last 24h per GitHub topic activity, but nothing user-visible.

F4PGA

• Fetch failed — f4pga.org/index.xml and f4pga.org/ both 404; releases atom empty. Project may be effectively dormant; needs source-list review.

ZipCPU blog

• No items in the 24h window. Feed now reachable at https://zipcpu.com/feed.xml (not the bootstrap’s broken candidate); most recent post “Device Clock Generation” dated 2025-12-17. Cadence is monthly-ish, not daily — expected to be quiet most days.

Adam Taylor’s MicroZed Chronicles

• No items in the 24h window. Most recent post is “MicroZed Chronicles: DFT from Scratch” dated 2026-05-20 — outside the strict 24h window but reachable now; not previously surfaced (bootstrap marked this source “not fetched”).

fpga4fun

• No items in the 24h window. Most recent visible site update remains early 2024.

GitHub Trending — fpga

• Top 10 by star count is unchanged from the bootstrap (openwall/john, PaddlePaddle/Paddle-Lite, logisim-evolution, LeiWang1999/FPGA, open-sdr/openwifi, enjoy-digital/litex, SpinalHDL/VexRiscv, openhwgroup/cva6, darklife/darkriscv, corundum/corundum).
• Repositories with commit activity dated 2026-05-22 / 2026-05-23: openwall/john, PaddlePaddle/Paddle-Lite, logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution, enjoy-digital/litex, openhwgroup/cva6, plus three outside the top-10 worth tracking: GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow, stnolting/neorv32, and analogdevicesinc/hdl (Analog Devices’ reference HDL designs — first-party vendor open-source, not always counted in FPGA roundups).

Signal worth watching

• The bootstrap’s “vendor fetches are broken” finding still holds. Lattice, Microchip, AMD, Altera, EE Times, and Semiconductor Engineering all failed today with the same symptoms as 24 hours ago. This is no longer an environment artefact — it is a sources.yaml quality issue and should be opened as a follow-up before relying on this track’s vendor coverage.
• Open-source FPGA work is moving on main branches, not in tagged releases. Litex, CVA6, Glasgow, NEORV32, and ADI’s HDL repo all had commits in the last 24h, but the most recent tagged Litex release is from January and the most recent Yosys release is from 11 days ago. Daily release-based monitoring will systematically miss this activity; a future sources.yaml revision could add main commit feeds (/commits/main.atom) for the most active repos.

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