4 ms·
This is unfortunately still the norm in the FPGA world, which I think is a poor decision in the long term for Intel/Xilinx. I wanted to seriously get into FPGA
by simias 3y ago
This is unfortunately still the norm in the FPGA world, which I think is a poor decision in the long term for Intel/Xilinx. I wanted to seriously get into FPGA dev a decade or so ago, I learned to write Verilog and everything but the tooling made me give up, it was too painful to deal with all the quirks and limitations of the free tools.
- latchkey 3y agoIt is possible to download and use the Xilinx tools for free. My company sells bare metal access to FPGA's and our customers do it all the time. I agree with the tooling being a nightmare though. It is a 80gb+ install that fails half the time.
- sigsev_251 3y agoYou forgot that it crashes in random times and that the text editor refuses to open files because sigasi can't be initialized
- latchkey 3y agoI didn't forget, I just didn't get past the install. ;-)
- simias 3y agoI admit I'm mostly familiar with the Intel (formerly Altera) side. There are no restrictions at all on the Xilinx side? That's pretty neat.
- latchkey 3y agoYou sign up on their website and click ok on the long eula nobody reads and then click download. So yea, there are probably restrictions, but they don't have a paywall in front of them. This isn't legal advice at all.