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November 2, 2025
in Embedded Systems, Tooling, RSW Engineering, Opinionated
16 min read

🍟 The State of Open-Source EDA Tools for ASIC Design

Democratising silicon: from RTL to GDSII without a million-dollar licence

xkcd — xkcd #356: Nerd Sniping -- IC design optimisation problems have similar properties

October 13, 2025
in Embedded Systems, Tooling, RSW Engineering, Opinionated
19 min read

© The State of Open-Source FPGA Tools

From vendor lock-in to freedom: synthesising, routing, and programming FPGAs without proprietary toolchains

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June 17, 2024
in Opinionated, RSW Engineering, Tooling
12 min read

🧩 Maintaining Code Quality with `pre-commit`

Some tips and tools to help keep research software reproducible, reliable and robust.

Code quality..

November 6, 2020
in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
10 min read

⚡️ PySpark by Example

Here are my worked examples from the very useful LinkedIn Learning course: PySpark by Example by Jonathan Fernandes : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/apache-pyspark-by-example

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