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oh its not, I've heard the exact same thing from Xilinx users. The whole space is ridiculously bad and undermaintained while simultaneously having come a long w
by vmception 6y ago
oh its not, I've heard the exact same thing from Xilinx users. The whole space is ridiculously bad and undermaintained while simultaneously having come a long way. I'm probably not the first person over the last 35 years to say this, but they are right at the cusp of a big breakthrough in utility.
OpenCL was a nice try but everyone did their own thing with it and are now going back to their own vendor specific frameworks. No leadership, irreconcilable business decisions, unnecessarily crippling an open source community, software licenses are too expensive probably because they can't mass monetize the FPGAs. Its just really bad, it doesn't seem like it belongs in this century.
- xvilka 6y agoThis is why projects like SymbiFlow[1] and Chisel[2] (and many others) exist. [1] https://symbiflow.github.io/ https://symbiflow.github.io/ [2] https://www.chisel-lang.org/chisel3/ https://www.chisel-lang.org/chisel3/
- seg_lol 6y agoThe tooling is bad because it is a Katamari Damacy of 3rd party libraries held together with wheat paste and boogers. The majority of the software was not developed in house, and they pass the savings on to the customer. The FPGA vendors see themselves as ASIC replacements so from their perspective they are "killing it" across all metrics. We know where this needs to go.