It is good to hear that there is even an OSS FPGA workshop! They have even a panel discussion about how to run a sustainable business with open source hardware

It is good to hear that there is even an OSS FPGA workshop! They have even a panel discussion about how to run a sustainable business with open source hardware development. I would like attend! Aside from open source on-ramp efforts the FPGAs should be easily usable by software developers. So more software developers would work with FPGAs instead of the electrical engineers mostly without the knowledge and appreciation of a convenient software development environment. For example, most of the time I try to utilize Makefiles, git, continuous integration in my FPGA projects. Some of my former FPGA developer colleagues are electrical engineers which became FPGA developers later. These colleagues were just happy when they could draw something on the GUI, and did not pay any attention to the garbage of files generated by the CAD tool during commit at all. An idea to make the FPGAs more tasteful is the Pynq platform [1] that I discovered last year. The platform can leverage FPGA acceleration in Python environment, and the different bitstreams are loaded on-demand (in an app fashion). I am planning to give workshops about this platform. [1] http://www.pynq.io http://www.pynq.io