RAW Workshop 2026 Paper published

We are happy to announce that our paper, "A Lightweight Slow Control Interlock System Targeting the European GateMate™ FPGA," has been published in the IEEE IPDPSW 2026 proceedings!

This work focuses on two key aspects: our preliminary results on an FPGA-centric lightweight slow control interlock system, and our hands-on experience porting the design to the GateMate™ FPGA by Cologne Chip AG. We also used an open-source FPGA design flow based on Yosys, nextpnr-himbaechel, GHDL, and openFPGAloader.

This was a great opportunity to explore the maturity and potential of an open-source toolchain for a European FPGA platform.

Many thanks to my co-authors, Daniel Anders, Vitalii Burtsev, Daniele Passaretti, Christof Pfannenmüller, and Fabian Lurz.