Not even. You have to pay a royalty to ship one of these M0 designs, still. It's just designed to be more appealing to research.

The blog post said royalty free though... I agree its not exactly super clear.

> Pretty sure they will be precompiled RTL blobs.

They are. Encrypted, too.

Ugh. That's all I needed to know. (Thanks.)

There goes a very large pile of potential security research out the window.

That all being said, my sources tell me that tools exist which can decrypt the .vp files. It's still not going to be particularly readable, but at least it's available for analysis.

Hmm. Well, I get the impression the tools you mention are probably less hens-teeth than the ARM bitstream files ever were, so this development is pretty cool then.