It's fairly cool. But it'd be cooler if the FPGA actually had documentation. That would allow using the open stack (yosys+nextpnr). But few vendors provide th

It's fairly cool. But it'd be cooler if the FPGA actually had documentation. That would allow using the open stack (yosys+nextpnr). But few vendors provide these documents (QuickLogic), and otherwise most of the supported families are so thanks to reverse engineering. Quite sad. In practice, most hobbyists will simply avoid garbage vendor tools, and development boards (like this one) that need them. Instead, they'll get e.g. QuickLogic, Lattice iCE40/ECP5 or GOWIN GW1N/GW2N, on some cheap development board[0]. Yes, hobbyists and students are "the bottom", but winning them has historically been how you eventually win the industry as a whole. 0. https://www.joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards https://www.joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards