This whole story of later years, maybe it will bring more attention to the lack of progress in commercial hardware design tools, their ridiculous price, and exi

This whole story of later years, maybe it will bring more attention to the lack of progress in commercial hardware design tools, their ridiculous price, and existing efforts to create modern open source alternatives, like SymbiFlow [1], Chisel3 [2]/FIRRTL[3], The Open ROAD[4] project, etc. [1] https://symbiflow.githib.io https://symbiflow.githib.io [2] https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3 https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3 [3] https://github.com/freechipsproject/firrtl https://github.com/freechipsproject/firrtl [4] https://theopenroadproject.org/ https://theopenroadproject.org/