European FPGA Meets Edge AI: Logic Neural Networks on the GateMate-A1
I’ve had my eyes on the Cologne Chip GateMate FPGA for a while. A European FPGA embracing the open-source yosys+nextpnr toolchain, more than enough to get me intrigued. After hearing about it on FPGA-forum 2026 in Trondheim, I acquired an Olimex GateMate-A1 EVB and a cheap OV7670 camera module to start putting together a demo. Being the Edge AI enthusiast that I am – and having had way too much fun with the sketch recognition demo I did recently – I decided to do a version of the sketch recognition demo to this board. But this time, with a live video camera view of a sketchpad, and recognizing the sketches with a logic neural network.