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These terms keep Forum, Chat, editorial review, and user submissions useful for the FPGA community. An account unlocks Chat beyond the anonymous limit, lets you post on the forum, and lets you submit news, articles, projects, classifieds, and meetups for moderation.

What you can do

  • Ask FpgaChatBot practical questions about FPGA, RTL, tools, and bring-up.
  • Post forum questions and answers with verifiable technical context.
  • Submit material with a verifiable source link or repository.
  • Share your own projects, classifieds, and meetups when the facts can be checked.
  • Work with editors to correct submitted material when review finds issues.

What is not allowed

  • Invented news, events, classifieds, board specifications, or prices.
  • Other people's personal data, private documents, access keys, or trade secrets.
  • Private vendor logs, license servers, hostnames, usernames, NDA fragments, or closed RTL/Tcl/DCP without publication rights.
  • Hardware instructions that can damage equipment without power, IO, and constraints checks.
  • Unsourced factual claims about companies, products, or events.

Forum

The forum is for engineering triage: include vendor, toolchain, version, board, HDL, expected and actual result, a short error excerpt, and what was already checked. The thread author or a moderator can accept an answer as the solution; a moderator can mark a thread as needing more context.

Moderation

Every user submission is created as a draft first. An administrator receives a notification, checks the source, link, and substance, then publishes, requests changes, or rejects the draft.

Chat

FpgaChatBot helps with engineering questions, but it does not replace board documentation, datasheets, constraints, or measurements. Before wiring or programming hardware, always verify power rails, IO levels, pinout, and project constraints.

Telegram bot payments

Paid models in Telegram are paid with Telegram Stars. After a successful payment, the bot creates a hidden OpenRouter key with a $5 limit for that Telegram user. The key is not shown to the user; remaining credits are visible with /balance.

Updated: May 20, 2026