{"id":1336,"date":"2026-06-22T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:47:21","slug":"brutal-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/brutal-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The 210 Works On More FPGAs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest configuration has been tested on GateMate FPGAs and results in working builds (as determined by running a simple &#8220;flashing LEDs&#8221; program). This means that Gowin and GateMate are now supported targets, although it&#8217;ll take me a little while to clean up &amp; extend the builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Higher-End Models Underway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should have some faster base models uploaded soon based on third-party open source projects. So these initial models will represent much less engineering effort at my end but will hopefully form the basis of a stable processor lineup: hardened &amp; supported versions of existing designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This currently involves experimenting with two different open-source designs, and provided that the basics eventually work I should be able to start uploading my changes soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that model numbers will not indicate newness but should roughly correspond to size of the design, and that the level of support I can offer won&#8217;t be exactly the same for each model (although at least some of my compilers will be portable to each).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Having To Think About Version Control&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I may just go back to using git as this seems easier for browsing projects &amp; READMEs online, or I may release more over SVN as this is very convenient from my end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 210 Works On More FPGAs The latest configuration has been tested on GateMate FPGAs and results in working builds (as determined by running a simple &#8220;flashing LEDs&#8221; program). This means that Gowin and GateMate are now supported targets, although it&#8217;ll take me a little while to clean up &amp; extend the builds. Higher-End Models [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}