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iCE40 is one of the niche-market (in this case, ultra-low-power) FPGAs that your post's parent talks about. iCE40 competes primarily with other boutique manufac
by bri3d 11y ago
iCE40 is one of the niche-market (in this case, ultra-low-power) FPGAs that your post's parent talks about. iCE40 competes primarily with other boutique manufacturers and ancient big-vendor parts like CoolRunner CPLDs, not full-featured top tier FPGAs like Virtex. No Holy Grail of open tooling is going to make up for a lack of essential features which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoEspecially since the FPGA vendors keep wisely funding and buying most of the best results in academia to keep them from being open. I was excitedly looking at one with many fold speedup in synthesis earlier until I saw the word Altera in the credits. (sighs) There goes another one...