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gauntlets

A series of weekly competitive programming challenges designed to test optimization skills across multiple metrics.

Upcoming Gauntlets

Open Community Gauntlet v1

The next community driven circuit challenges.

Coming Soon

Past Gauntlets

Foundry Gauntlet Rev-0

The inaugural 4-week competition featuring logic focused circuit optimization challenges.

May 24 - June 21, 2025
Challenges:
  • Week 1: Majority Function 3Bit
  • Week 2: Priority Encoder 4-2Bit
  • Week 3: Power of 2 Detector 3Bit
  • Week 4: MagnitudeComparator2Bit

Foundry Gauntlet Rev-1

The Memory focused 4-week competition.

November 1 - November 28, 2025
Challenges:
  • Week 1: DLatch
  • Week 2: Gated Dlatch OE RowCol Sel
  • Week 3: 2x2 Bit Gated Dlatches
  • Week 4: 4x8 Bit DLatches Memory Bank

Open Community Gauntlet v0

A path to a 2Bit divider 3-week competition.

December 13th 2025 - January 3rd 2026
Challenges:
  • Week 1: 2Bit Subtract
  • Week 2: 2Bit Subtract If Above Or Equal
  • Week 3: 2Bit Unsigned Full Divide

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