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gauntlets

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

Upcoming Gauntlets

Future gauntlet events will appear here.

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

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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

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Open Community Gauntlet v0

A path to a 2Bit divider 3-week competition, by Mysterious Architect

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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Open Community Gauntlet v1

A path to a 4Bit set of logical function for a CPU NOT OR AND XOR, by Heiltec

February 28th 2026 - March 21th 2026

Challenges:

Week 1: And Not Multi Gate
Week 2: Or Xor Multi Gate
Week 3: And Or Xor Not Multi Gate
Week 4: 4Bit And Or Xor Not

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