I really don't think the hardware specs is the issue. OSS EDA is miles behind commercial EDA. It's great that there are efforts to create an open ecosystem, and

I really don't think the hardware specs is the issue. OSS EDA is miles behind commercial EDA. It's great that there are efforts to create an open ecosystem, and there are some chips that are usable in those flows, but the SW is orders of magnitude behind the proprietary tools. I don't like that these proprietary tools are thrashed also, tools like Vivado are immensely complicated and surprisingly easy to use compared with other hardware tools. ASIC synthesis would make your cry compared with how easy Vivado makes it for FPGAs. Sure its not perfect, but it is free to use for many devices, and includes simulation, debug, SDKs, etc.