Five years of Spade - A modern Hardware description language (Frans Skarman) @FOSSiFoundation

Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Spade is a modern hardware description language that brings a powerful type system, abstractions for hardware constructs like pipelines and memories, and user friendly tooling to the hardware space. In September 2025, the language turned 5 years old, and this presentation will show off the current status of the project, the new development since the last LatchUp presentation two years ago, and perhaps some new things coming in the future.

Five years of Spade - A modern Hardware description language (Frans Skarman)

Open-source Hardware for Real-Time Applications - Francisco Wilken (Latch-Up 2023)

Substrate: Designing Highly Configurable Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Generators (Rahul Kumar)

Shaping Tomorrow’s Chip Designers: Open-Source Initiatives at IHP (C. Wittke, J. Wallenborn)

Wildcat: Educational RISC-V Microprocessors (Martin Schoeberl)

From Open PDKs to Silicon: Progress at IHP (Frank Vater)

Chipyard: An Open-Source RISC-V SoC Design Framework - Abraham Gonzalez (Latch-Up 2023)

OpenROAD and the Era of Agents (Andrew Kahng)

GDSFactory: Open-Source EDA for Photonics, Quantum, MEMS, and RF Chip Design (Rishabh Iyer)

Chipathon: Democratizing IC Design - A Global Open-Source Silicon Challenge (Mehdi Saligane)

A Sneak Preview into the FABulous 2.0 eFPGA Framework (Jonas Künstler)

SystemVerilog Assertion Verification with CIRCT (Tobias Wölfel)