I interviewed Anton Blanchard about his MPW1 application - a 64bit OpenPOWER core written in VHDL.

We talked about:

• VHDL vs Verilog
• FPGA vs ASIC
• Problems they faced with such a big design
• SRAM vs DFFRAM
• Software vs Hardware mentality
• Fixing bugs and contributing to OpenLane

You can check out the repository here: https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt-caravel

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