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The secret sauce is in the software. The hardware isn’t that revolutionary. On top of that, fpga vendors have this habit of outsourcing every little thing. This
by deelowe 5y ago
The secret sauce is in the software. The hardware isn’t that revolutionary. On top of that, fpga vendors have this habit of outsourcing every little thing. This makes it super difficult for them to embrace open source give the IP liabilities.
- amelius 5y ago> The secret sauce is in the software. I'll take my hardware without the sauce, thank you!
- liaukovv 5y agoThat would make hardware a commodity and there is not enough margin in commodoties.
- rowanG077 5y agoI see an open source tool chain but not an open source FPGA. Doesn't that by itself prove the secret sauce is not that secret.
- nereye 5y agoThere are various efforts in this area, e.g. see https://osfpga.org/ https://osfpga.org/, https://openfpga.readthedocs.io/ https://openfpga.readthedocs.io/ etc.
- ohazi 5y agoThe secret sauce may be in the software, but the software they sell you is a 1998 edition of Borland C++, and we're all screaming at them to please just make their hardware an LLVM target already.
- CamperBob2 5y agobut the software they sell you is a 1998 edition of Borland C++ I wish!