• E1M Standard 1.2 — open, silicon-agnostic pinout + mechanical envelope for AI-capable Systems-on-Module in two form factors: E1M (35 × 35 mm, 312 pads) and E1M-X (45 × 65 mm, 496 pads). The standard fixes the universe of pads and which signals each may carry; silicon variants — ALP-AEN (Alif Ensemble), ALP-X-V2N (Renesas RZ/V2N), ALP-X-V2N-M1 (DRP-AI3 + DEEPX M1) — declare their routed subset in per-variant SoM manifests. Any vendor can ship pin-compatible modules; any product board targets one connector and accepts multiple SoMs.
• Alp SDK — unification C/C++ firmware framework for E1M modules. A single board.yaml drives Zephyr, Yocto, and bare-metal builds across Alif Ensemble, Renesas RZ/V2N, NXP i.MX 93, and DEEPX DX-M1 silicon — single-OS or heterogeneous (Zephyr + Yocto + bare-metal coexisting on one SoM from one declarative project). Ships with 80+ chip drivers, ML inference dispatch (TFLite Micro → Ethos-U / DRP-AI / DEEPX), runtime hardware identification (ADC + on-module EEPROM manifest), and a VS Code configurator.
• tan — the standalone Rust build CLI that turns an Alp SDK project into firmware. One command surface (tan build / validate / doctor / generate / …) reads a board.yaml, drives the SDK planner, and produces a Zephyr / Yocto / bare-metal image end-to-end. The VS Code extension shells the same tan binary — install tan + an SDK checkout and you build from the terminal with no editor required.

• Signex is an open-source, AI-first EDA suite built in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering and an Altium Designer-quality UI — schematic + PCB editor, 3D viewer, simulation, plugin system. Native file formats (.snxsch, .snxpcb, .snxsym, .snxfpt) are line-diffable in git and ~5× smaller than the equivalent JSON. Migrating from KiCad? The optional signex-kicad-import companion (GPL-3.0-or-later, distributed independently) converts .kicad_sch / .kicad_pcb / .kicad_pro one-way to Signex's native formats.
  • Signex Community (Apache-2.0) — full schematic + PCB editor, 3D viewer, simulation, plugin system. Free forever.
  • Signex Pro (subscription) — adds Signal AI (Claude-powered design copilot), real-time collaboration, and Signex 365 cloud PLM.

You drive one command surface; it fans down to the SDK and out to a firmware image. The VS Code extension is a GUI over the same tan binary — nothing you can do in the editor is off-limits from the terminal.

A board.yaml at the top compiles down through each layer to silicon. Every layer is declarative and swappable — change the SoM, keep your source.

• Alp SDK — v0.11.1. Every chip driver, peripheral wrapper, and example builds clean on native_sim; two SoM families now carry silicon evidence — E1M-X V2N (verified v0.6) and E1M-AEN801 (Alif Ensemble E8 peripheral matrix + NPU inference, verified v0.8). Remaining families (i.MX 93, V2N-M1/DEEPX, AEN30x–70x) are pre-silicon.
• Signex — v0.14.0, the Footprint Editor milestone. The .snxfpt pad + parametric-sketch editor is live (Apache-clean Newton-LM constraint solver, 19 constraint kinds, bake to pads / silk / courtyard). Carries forward the v0.13 clean-room schematic renderer and the Symbol & Library surfaces (.snxsym envelope, Library Browser, Pick Symbol / Footprint).

Edge AI: Zephyr RTOS, Yocto, Alif Ensemble, Renesas RZ/V2N, NXP i.MX 93, DEEPX DX-M1, TFLite Micro, Arm Ethos-U, Renesas DRP-AI, MbedTLS, LVGL, CMSIS-DSP. Toolchain: tan build CLI (Rust), VS Code extension (TypeScript).

EDA: Rust, wgpu, Iced 0.14, native .snx* file formats, ngspice (SPICE), OpenEMS (EM/FDTD), Elmer (FEM), Supabase (collaboration + PLM).

• Alp SDK — embedded firmware on the open E1M pinout; rendered docs at docs.alplab.ai/sdk/introduction, community at community.alplab.ai.
• Signex — open EDA for schematic + PCB design; see the contributing guide and pick up a good first issue.
• Each repo carries its own CONTRIBUTING file + issue templates.