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2026-11-09 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-11-09

CruxOpen’s bit-exact board work

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An open-hardware project takes an AI accelerator and an image pipeline from executable reference models to working FPGA boards.

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The site says speculative decoding is implemented but disabled because it averages 0.97× on this hardware.

Field notes

The NPU table gives separate figures for two models: Qwen3-0.6B at 0.07 seconds per token and Qwen3.5-0.8B at 0.13. The camera project lays out a full stack from RAW sensor input through Bayer processing and 3A statistics to YUYV output over DDR and HDMI/DisplayPort; its listed sensor is an onsemi AR1335.

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