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> iCE40 is popular exclusively because of the reverse engineering work that this prohibits. ice40 is popular in the hobbyist market exclusively because of the
by zokier 6y ago
> iCE40 is popular exclusively because of the reverse engineering work that this prohibits.
ice40 is popular in the hobbyist market exclusively because of the reverse engineering work. I doubt it has made much of a blip in commercial use.
- avmich 6y agoI always thought that commercial proposals grow and benefit from hobbyist market in a significant way. At least a bunch of commercial products which grew out of Kickstarter proposals. Maybe it's not a large case comparing with the whole industry of Lattice users?
- bsder 6y ago> ice40 is popular in the hobbyist market exclusively because of the reverse engineering work. I doubt it has made much of a blip in commercial use. The worst part is that I won't even consider a Lattice part for commercial products because I know they don't have the development resources over time to compete against Xilinx and Altera nee Intel. Open sourcing their toolchain would actually change that calculation.
- RantyDave 6y agoYou could have said the same thing about Linux twenty years ago.