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It would be incredible if AMD made some open source moves with their FPGAs as they did with their GPUs. That would allow open source tools like Yosys and nextpt
by MegaDeKay 3y ago
It would be incredible if AMD made some open source moves with their FPGAs as they did with their GPUs. That would allow open source tools like Yosys and nextptr to work with them easily vs. the painstaking reverse engineering efforts this now requires. Xilinx Vivado is a massive beast of a thing.
https://github.com/YosysHQ https://github.com/YosysHQ
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- kjs3 3y agoI think the issue is there are different market drivers at play. GPUs are more 'visible' than FPGAs to consumers; there's probably a couple of orders of magnitude more people pushing for open source/hackable drivers for GPUs than FPGAs (at least today). So AMD doesn't feel the pressure in the FPGA market, and it's 'easier' to maintain the status quo. I suspect we'll have to wait for a use case where somewhere near as many average users are actually thinking about their FPGA vendor as they do about their GPU vendor before things will change. Maybe an AI/ML application?