Tiliqua Based on Amaranth HDL software Sebastian Holzapfel, of German open source audio hardware specialist apfelaudio, wants to put a little FPGA in your Eurorack synthesizer setup — literally, with the Tiliqua module. "Tiliqua aims to make FPGA-based audio and video synthesis accessible to everyone," Holzapfel explains of his creation. "The Tiliqua hardware architecture, alongside a comprehensive collection of example projects built in Python (Amaranth HDL [Hardware Description Language]), allows you to experiment with synthesis techniques that are out of reach of embedded microcontroller-based platforms. Think extreme oversampling for alias-free audio-rate modulation, low-latency effects, video synthesis, and high-speed USB audio." Tiliqua itself, designed to slot straight in to a Eurorack setup, is based on an open-hardware FPGA module dubbed the soldiercrab and built around the Lattice ECP5 field-programmable gate array chip, with 25k logic elements, 16MB of H...