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El Correo Libre Issue 89
It has happened folks, another ORConf is behind us and we're all safely home thinking about yet another brilliant installment of Europe's premiere open source silicon design conference. On behalf of the FOSSi Foundation I'd like to thank all who attended, spoke, sponsored, donated and hosted for your involvement with the event – you helped make it run flawlessly under the baking Valencian sun.
Looking back at ORConf 2025
It has happened folks, another ORConf is behind us and we're all
safely home thinking about yet another brilliant installment of
Europe's premiere open source silicon design conference. On behalf of
the FOSSi Foundation I'd like to thank all who attended, spoke,
sponsored, donated and hosted for your involvement with the event – you helped make it run flawlessly under the baking Valencian sun.
El Correo Libre Issue 88
Today, after years of work, and major turbulence from the shuttering of Efabless Corporation, I am delighted to finally announce the release of LibreLane, the successor to OpenLane — a ground-up reimagining which implements OpenLane-compatible flows by providing an infrastructure with which flows can freely be created, customised, and distributed.
