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And what really annoys me about Lattice in particular is that they shut down their community forum and now there is basically no way to get any form of support

And what really annoys me about Lattice in particular is that they shut down their community forum and now there is basically no way to get any form of support when using a free license. A while ago I found a bug in Lattice Radiant that produced broken PLL configurations. I reproduced this and confirmed that it doesn't happen in their iCECube software, but had no desire to argue with their support about why they should even look at it when I'm not paying $$$ for the software... I permanently switched to the open toolchain and never had any serious issues since...

brianfaith 5y ago
While others keep their bitstreams closed and forums shut down, QuickLogic has opened theirs. They opened up the arch information needed for the open source tools to correctly support the architecture, which yields a better product for users. QuickLogic also has a forum that covers the open source tools. No need to pay to play. https://forum.quicklogic.com/ https://forum.quicklogic.com/
- DoingIsLearning 5y ago
  Hi Brian, welcome to HN and thank you for joining this discussion. I will admit that QuickLogic was not a household name for me but the SoCs you have do tick a lot of boxes for me. I have now ordered a Qomu dev kit to evaluate, I am looking forward to see how the workflow/toolchain are like. A final question, when trying to order a QuickFeather from Europe, I get a 'restricted availability' message that Mouser is unable to deliver the dev kit in my EU country due to 'government regulations'. In the past I had to go through a few hurdles/forms when using a specific chip for a medical device because it apparently was also used in some form of US defense application. Is that something EU buyers should expect from Quicklogic products in general? It's not a show stopper but it would be good to know ahead of designing anything.

brianfaith 5y ago

While others keep their bitstreams closed and forums shut down, QuickLogic has opened theirs. They opened up the arch information needed for the open source tools to correctly support the architecture, which yields a better product for users. QuickLogic also has a forum that covers the open source tools. No need to pay to play. https://forum.quicklogic.com/ https://forum.quicklogic.com/

DoingIsLearning 5y ago
Hi Brian, welcome to HN and thank you for joining this discussion. I will admit that QuickLogic was not a household name for me but the SoCs you have do tick a lot of boxes for me. I have now ordered a Qomu dev kit to evaluate, I am looking forward to see how the workflow/toolchain are like. A final question, when trying to order a QuickFeather from Europe, I get a 'restricted availability' message that Mouser is unable to deliver the dev kit in my EU country due to 'government regulations'. In the past I had to go through a few hurdles/forms when using a specific chip for a medical device because it apparently was also used in some form of US defense application. Is that something EU buyers should expect from Quicklogic products in general? It's not a show stopper but it would be good to know ahead of designing anything.