Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle

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Some solvers generated Verilog and used the SKY130 cell models with an existing simulator. The chip included some basic obfuscation in the form of an LFSR2 to “success” input to the output generator would produce a scrambled output). Some entrants described using it for small scripts; others gave agents the whole puzzle.

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