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A nine-processor console whose mixing DSPs have no instruction memory at all — the audio path is fixed-function silicon configured through a register file.

Nine years newer than the QL and sharing almost nothing with it but the parameter framework — including, crucially, the same DSP philosophy.

A 55 MB firmware image that contains none of the mixer. The entire audio path lives in FPGA fabric behind an undocumented AXI register map.

The one console examined whose control plane is wide open: a full Linux computer speaking documented Thrift and Protobuf. The mixer still lives in FPGA fabric — but the bitstreams ship in the clear and the exact parts are known.

The only platform here being studied to build on rather than to understand — and the only one where the container format was analysed, found opaque, and then declared off the critical path.

Not a console, but the transport a great many of them hang off. Documented from both ends at once — the server firmware and the host driver are the same protocol version.

A headless FPGA console that splits its work across three silicon tiers — a Zynq UltraScale+ running full Ubuntu for control, and a pair of dedicated Spartan-7 FPGAs doing the actual mixing — with an update package that quietly names the OEM behind the brand.

Not a teardown. The open console these teardowns keep pointing at — included because "what would you build instead" is the question every one of them ends on.

Appears in existing work only as the larger sibling platform to the SQ. No analysis has been performed.

Referenced in the WING work as the platform with the most prior open-source activity. No analysis of our own has been performed.