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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-08

LUNA SuperSpeed USB Improvements

FPGA implementation of USB 3

LUNA is an open source gateware library for creating USB devices with FPGAs. It includes mature support for USB 2.0 Low-, Full-, and High-speed devices. It also has experimental support for USB 3.x SuperSpeed devices with support for using built-in SerDes transceivers on some FPGAs, avoiding the need for an external PHY. This project will stabilise LUNA's SuperSpeed support by improving timing closure, implementing low-power link states, and running physical-layer electrical compliance testing using the Lattice ECP5's built-in transceivers.

Run by Great Scott Gadgets

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).