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Open source FPGA toolchains begin to appear, mostly on the low-end for now. And because all FPGA vendors are doing such a terrible job for tooling, Yosys and fr
by krasin 4y ago
Open source FPGA toolchains begin to appear, mostly on the low-end for now. And because all FPGA vendors are doing such a terrible job for tooling, Yosys and friends are likely the future.
- FullyFunctional 4y agoVery true; Lattice Semi’s ECP5 is a fairly decent FPGA with very mature support from Yosys/nextpnr/trellis. Xilinx’ Artix-7/Kintex-7 are much more powerful FPGAs and the support for those is getting to be pretty good (DDR3 support is steadily maturing) It would be nice to see a vendor actually officially supporting these efforts. Maybe one day. (Not to mention various open source FPGAs - actual chips - being developped)