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A Curated Directory of Awesome Cologne Chips' GateMate FPGA Links.

Why GateMate Video Slides

Documentation

DocumentationGateMate FPGA | Cologne Chip. Scroll down and click on the documentation tab. The data sheet is very well writen. Installation guide is also there. If you want to understand LUT trees, make sure to read the primitives library.

Project Peppercorn - GateMate FPGA Bitstream Documentation

Architectural Slides Really these slides should be in the data sheet. Video

LUT-Tree Analsysis An excellent explanation of the LUT trees.

Playground for various GateMate FPGA SerDes loopback tests

Interface Guide for Peripheral Devices with 3.3 V Signaling

LUTRAM_Stress_Test capacities

Boards

Olimex GateMateA1-EVB1 This 50€ board is the popular choice for starting with the GateMate. You will probably want to use at lease one of these extension boards. Here is the list of UEXT Extension boards. At [the bottom of this page](pico-ice: Using Pmods) is a list of lists of pMods.

Cologne Chip's GateMate FPGA Evaluation Board This is the board made by Cologne Chips. $398 at Digikey

Prototyping board for the GateMate Evaluation Board

GMM-7550 2024 Feb FOSDEM Talk Includes a Raspberry Pi hat and a memory module which provides 512Kx8 static RAM (CY7C1049GN30-10ZSXI) with 10 ns access time and 16 MiB QSPI NOR FLASH (S25LP128-JBLE). Trenz Electonics # FPGA module 16 MByte QSPI Flash, 4 x 5 cm]. 82.11 € (69.00 € net)

ULX5M is in development. It will be in the popular Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) form-factor, so it can attach to lots of different base boards.

LED Matrix A little PCB to adapt 2.5v GateMate signals to 5V for matrix Led.

Pricing

One user told me that the 21€ Gatemate A1 board compares very roughly, to Lattice ECP5-5G LFE5UM5G-45 53€-83€ at digikey,com, or AMD's Spartan 6 (XC6SLX45T, In Europe Lattice and AMD also face import duties, and a greater risk of supply chain disruptions, particularly if the chips are made in Taiwan.

FirmWare

JTag Programmer Also supports Uart.

GGMM-7550/gmm7550-control-rp2040 Circuit Python control of the GateMate FPGA for the gmm7550 board.

GateWare

Space Inavders on an Intel 8080. Article GitLab

Open Cologne is a project to expand the GateMate ecosystem, funded by the EU. Github

Integrated Logic Analyzer allows you to capture and analyze all signals of your design as a waveform directly within the FPGA. Video GitHub

FemtoRV Tutorial

NEORV32 on GateMate Issues NEORV has a big enphasis on useability and realiability.

litex now supports both the Olimex and Cologne Chips boards.

Design Tools

DI-FEntwumS (In German) Open source design and visualization environment for dynamically configurable microchips

Videos

Novel Architecture for European FPGA An introduction to the GateMate architecture. Slides

Articles

Accelerating the Game of Life with the GateMate FPGA: Computing 960 Cells in a Single Clock Cycle This is a great example of using the GateMate small adders in an innovateive way.

Using One and Two Bit Adders to solve the above game of life calculations. Not as efficient a solution, but easy to understand.

GateMate FPGA Tool Chain

Cologne Chips GateMate FPGA Offers a Flexible Architecture

Would you buy a $20 GateMate FPGA from Germany’s Cologne Chip?

Why GateMate? compares the GateMate to other FPGAs.

Social Media

OLIMEX Gatemate Board Discord Channel

Radiona Gatemate Discord Channel They are making the Olimex Gagemate add on boards, and OpenCologne and the ULX5S.

@olimex@mastodon.social makers of the leading Gatemate board.

@PythonLinks@mastodon.social maintains this directory.

I encourage everyone to minimise your useage of corporate social media such as X/Twitter and join the fediverse.

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