GateMate FPGAs

The company Cologne Chip AG in Köln, Germany, is the only company that uses yosys as the only synthesiz tool. Though for place&route it uses its own binary console application which is only available for Linux and Windows.

Though a contact recently confirmed me that it will move to the open source tool NextPnR as well and that there will be a beta version around Q4/2024 or Q1/2025.

Hopefully they will publish it on Github so macOS users would benefit as well.

This article was updated on April 8, 2025

Richard Klingler

Richard Klingler

Kreativer Hardware und Software Entwickler.