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Building for an fpga shouldn’t be any harder than building for cortex mcus, and there are lots of free/oss toolchains and configurations for those.
by mikepurvis 10mo ago
Building for an fpga shouldn’t be any harder than building for cortex mcus, and there are lots of free/oss toolchains and configurations for those.
- SV_BubbleTime 10mo ago> shouldn’t Is doing so much heavy lifting here, I need to ask; how much FPGA configuration you have done before?
- mikepurvis 10mo agoVery little, just student projects in undergrad. So yes, in that sense I'm talking out of my ass. But perhaps you can help enlighten me what it is that makes building FPGA firmware different from building MCU firmware.
- thijson 10mo agoCompiling RTL to run on an FPGA is way more complicated than compiling code to run on a CPU. Typically it has to meet timing, which requires detailed knowledge of logic placement. I'm not saying that's impossible, just that it's more complicated.