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> Not that I don't wish to have tooling available for me to modify, but I also understand this is thousand years of man work right there... The same could be s
by marcodiego 4y ago
> Not that I don't wish to have tooling available for me to modify, but I also understand this is thousand years of man work right there...
The same could be said about highly efficient optimizing compilers and kernels. Nevertheless, we have GCC and Linux.
- tails4e 4y agoCompare iverilog to VCS or xcelium, while it's brilliant, it's not even close in features or performance, and there is nothing preventing the OSS community from making it better, so the question is why? is it just a lack of people with the right mix of skills (both SW and HW is rare enough), or something else? Synthesis, place and route are all much harder than simulation, so I don't think tools like vivado would suddenly be better if open sourced. Also I think vivado is great, but I seem to be in the minority on that one, but I guess it's my perspective as a HW designer dealing with HW tools all my life, vivado is a breath of fresh air.