You're right, and in fairness I haven't used an FPGA or VHDL since the 90s. I spent the 2000s in destitution and the 2010s catching up, getting the rug pulled o

You're right, and in fairness I haven't used an FPGA or VHDL since the 90s. I spent the 2000s in destitution and the 2010s catching up, getting the rug pulled out from under me every 10 years or so like everyone else as wealth inequality reached unbelievable levels. Even $1000 for a testing rig felt out of reach. I should probably start with an open source setup, but last I heard, pretty much all FPGAs had a proprietary layer like GPU drivers on Linux, which was such a huge turnoff that I never bothered proceeding further. If that's changed, I'm all ears!