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EXPERIMENT: top/xbeam: 12x12 interface with 2x expanders#156

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@vk2seb vk2seb commented Mar 3, 2026

For context on actually using this, see: #155

Bitstream from above ticket was built with:

TILIQUA_ASQ_I_BITS=2 TILIQUA_ASQ_WIDTH=17 pdm xbeam build --expander-ex0 --expander-ex1 --verbose

Linecount is huge because of the vex reconfig.

Technical details:

  • Add gateware for 2 TLQ-EXPANDER pmods to xbeam, rename it to xbeam-ex
  • Bump device serial and version so Windows doesn't cache the channel count from xbeam
  • Drop tweakable delay lines, drop SoC line rasterizer, shrink vex cache so everything fits in 98% LUTs (!!)
  • Add selectable plotting of builtin/ex0/ex1

@vk2seb vk2seb changed the title top/xbeam: EXPERIMENT: 12x12 interface with 2x expanders EXPERIMENT: top/xbeam: 12x12 interface with 2x expanders Mar 3, 2026
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