A Raspberry Pi Zero that uses an FPGA rather than a processor has been created by 16-year-old Chengyin Yao.
It is a direct form factor and connections replacement for the Pi Zero, but allows the user to program in their choice of processor or even create their own.
The FPGA chosen for the build is the ECP5 25F, which has 24k LUTs, 256MB of SDRAM and 112KB of onboard RAM.
It has HDMI, USB and USB-C ports and an SD card slot, and is intended as a retro gaming board, but can be programmed for other uses.
Yao has made the design open source andRz364 hopes to have the boards made via a fabrication service, but they are not currently for sale.
