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I had fun years ago with FPGA's, first on a digilent nexus 3 and then a terasic de0 nano. I kinda gave up as the IDE's sucked and sucked harder if you were on a

I had fun years ago with FPGA's, first on a digilent nexus 3 and then a terasic de0 nano. I kinda gave up as the IDE's sucked and sucked harder if you were on anything other than windows. I spent hours getting Quartus running on Ubuntu, something to do with the draconian licensing software. I also had issues with ISE on Linux and never bothered to move on to Vivaldo for the same reason, didn't want the headache. Open your stupid bitstream formats FFS.

brianfaith 5y ago
MisterTea, QuickLogic has open source tools for FPGA products here: https://www.quicklogic.com/software/qorc-mcu-efpga-fpga-open-source-tools/ https://www.quicklogic.com/software/qorc-mcu-efpga-fpga-open... Linux is supported.
- fleventynine 5y ago
  Unfortunately, 10G serdes and >50kLUTs are table stakes to run the applications I have in mind...I think we're a long way from officially supported open toolchains for medium-size FPGAs.
  - grandmczeb 5y ago
    Just curious, what kind of applications are you thinking of?
    - fleventynine 5y ago
      Interfacing with CMOS image sensors, basic DSP, and transmitting uncompressed 4k video over 10G or 40G Ethernet.