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>"The barrier to entry in the FPGA world is tooling and expression" Regarding tooling, I'd say it's not quite the barrier it used to be, now that Project IceSt
by ZenoArrow 10y ago
>"The barrier to entry in the FPGA world is tooling and expression"
Regarding tooling, I'd say it's not quite the barrier it used to be, now that Project IceStorm exists.
http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
- gravypod 10y agoIf you're writing VHDL or Verilog then it's for electrical engineers, not humans. The barriers include bad description languages. You should just have an EDA system. It will take time for pros to use but will be easy for beginners (especially considering that the output of the EDA will usually be what they did)
- ZenoArrow 10y agoThe GP mentioned 'tooling and expression', I mentioned tooling, you're mentioning expression. Aside from that, other HDLs than just Verilog and VHDL do exist, such as Chisel and CλaSH: https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ http://www.clash-lang.org/ http://www.clash-lang.org/ Also, whilst I'm sure open source EDA tools could be improved, some of the basic building blocks exist, it appears to be more of an issue of packaging than availability. Seems like EDA tooling is a niche that a specialist Linux distro could fill (if tutorials are also provided).
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