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Latest FOSSi Foundation News
Reflecting on Latch-Up 2026
Latch-Up is now behind us and we can reflect on what a great conference it was. For the first time, Latch-Up was held in Canada, making it properly a North American event. This was clearly greatly appreciated by the Canadians, who made up more than 60 percent of the conference registrations. Of course we had the usual contingent of participants from the U.S., as well as some die-hards from Europe who are not content to just attend ORConf in the fall. We had 138 registrations, and given how packed the conference room was for both days, it's clear that most people who registered showed up for the event.
El Correo Libre Issue 96
Leo Moser and Mohamed Gaber have announced a milestone achievement for the LibreLane project, an infrastructure library for application-specific integrated circuits and designed as the successor to the popular OpenLane, as it reaches release 3.0 - which brings with it a new website and logo.
El Correo Libre Issue 95
We’re happy to announce the first set of speakers for this year’s Latch-Up conference in Waterloo, Canada from May 1-3. One thing is clear: it’s going to be a great conference! We already have talks on open source ASIC tapeouts, FPGAs, education around free and open source silicon, any much more.
