The proprietary tools are painful! I never really used FPGAs outside of school until there were other options. Look at the open source yosys/nextpnr toolchain.

The proprietary tools are painful! I never really used FPGAs outside of school until there were other options. Look at the open source yosys/nextpnr toolchain. Your best bet is to use lattice ice40 or ecp5 FPGAs with it, they’re very well supported.