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zeroasiccorp / wildebeest

wildebeest

FPGA synthesis tool

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
146GitHub stars
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What it is

FPGA synthesis tool

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-09-18 15:21:16 UTC to 2025-09-29 18:56:31 UTC.

01232025-09-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 182025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 232025-09-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsSep 29

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 182025-09-18 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 192025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 202025-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-21 00:00:00 UTC000
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Sep 232025-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-24 00:00:00 UTC000
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Sep 272025-09-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 282025-09-28 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 292025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-30 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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This sounds exciting, and the press release does a great job of explaining why. For anyone else who was wondering, it says it's under the Apache 2.0 license: https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/wildebeest?tab=Apache-2.0-1-... I didn't realize that Xilinx xc7 synthesis was officially a feature of Yosys already! Dropping the logic depth for picorv32 on LUT6s from 17 to 6 seems like it will double the achievable frequency or more. It's especially impressive that this beats the vendor tools—but it's unclear to me if this is an apples-to-apples comparison.
In Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool

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