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Frans Skarman

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I am a PostDoc at Hochschule München working on open source tooling for more productive FPGA and ASIC development. My primary research project is Spade ( https://spade-lang.org/ ), a hardware description language that makes hardware design more efficient using ideas from software languages. I am also the original…

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I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst

I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.