Antmicro
antmicro.com · Company blog · on HN since 2020
Antmicro is an engineering company that writes about open source hardware, FPGAs, RISC-V, Rust on seL4, and signal integrity tooling.
What HN saysCommenters link it for its open source FPGA, signal integrity, and Rust on seL4 work, with one criticizing a board's missing M.2 storage.
17HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1VexRiscv is a quadcore, Linux-capable RISC-V softcore for FPGA3 people · 174 points · first shared 2020 · 77 comments on HN
- 2Running Rust Programs in SeL43 people · 7 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 3High-frequency hardware design with open source signal integrity analysis3 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Accelerating digital block design with Google's open source Mid-Level Synthesis2 people · 4 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 5RPC DRAM support in open source DRAM controller1 people · 31 points · first shared 2020 · 11 comments on HN
- 6Zephyr FPGA Controller1 people · 25 points · first shared 2021 · 8 comments on HN
- 7ZGlue Teams Up with Antmicro and Google in Open Chiplet Initiative1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 8Open source RDIMM DDR5 Tester for Rowhammer memory vulnerability research (2023)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9Deterministic Linux and Zephyr/micro-ROS testing in OSS Renode (2022)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 10Open Hardware Portal: opening the hardware design process with KiCad and Blender1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Open Source FPGA Design for SDI-MIPI Video Converter1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12Dc scm open source bmc platforms1 people · first shared 2025
- 13Fomu keystroke injector1 people · first shared 2023
- 14Updated jetson nano xavier nx baseboard m21 people · first shared 2021
- 15Dc scm open hardware for fpga bmc1 people · first shared 2022
What HN people wrote when they linked it
buildbot · 2025-09-28
Baseboard management is switching to easily swapped modules for exactly this reason: https://antmicro.com/platforms/dc-scm-open-source-bmc-platforms/
https://www.servethehome.com/the-ocp-dc-scm-hff-is-taking-over-our-gui…
transpute · 2025-04-13
It's taken many years of reverse engineering, but there's now an efficient OSS toolchain for the smaller Artix7 FPGA family, https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/05/multicore-vex-in-litex/
mithro · 2023-11-28
The team at Antmicro put together this pretty cool visualisation flow for this stuff using only open source tools -> https://antmicro.com/blog/2023/11/open-source-signal-integrity-analysi…
childintime · 2022-10-16
Perhaps the more interesting page is:
https://antmicro.com/blog/2022/08/running-rust-programs-in-sel4/
More about Rust and the architecture. I know Renode of its RISC-V meetup presentations, can't say I was impressed favorably.
1996 · 2021-05-31
They sorely lack m2 for high throughput storage.
A board with a m2 port costs an extra $300 and only exists since last year: https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/04/updated-jetson-nano-xavier-nx-basebo…
It should have been standard and by default from the beginning.
fake-name · 2022-10-24
Looking through the DC-SCM specs [1], this thing is nuts.
- 13 (*Thirteen*) separate I2C interfaces
- 4 I3C interfaces (Update to I2C, still mostly proprietary)
- 2 QSPI interfaces
- 2 UART Interfaces
- 2 USB-2.0 interfaces
- PCIe 3.0 1x interface
- PCIe 5.0 4x interface
- JTAG to host system
- Various simple control signals (power, ok, etc..)
It's pretty goddamn future proof, though there's zero chance you could support all the various interfaces on anything arduino-esque.
Note: Apparently this isn't exactly news, here's[2] the antmicro press-release about this thing from 2021. Here's [3] the actual docs on the DC-SCM (including kicad schematic & PCB layout!).
1: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-dc-scm-spec-rev-1-0-pdf
2: https://antmicro.com/blog/2021/07/dc-scm-open-hardware-for-fpga-bmc/
3: https://github.com/antmicro/artix-dc-scm