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I was using Xilinx FPGAs in 1998 and they were saying next year then for such a thing. It's 15 years later and it's still the same with shitty overpriced tools
by kryten 13y ago
I was using Xilinx FPGAs in 1998 and they were saying next year then for such a thing.
It's 15 years later and it's still the same with shitty overpriced tools, per-vendor ghettos and crazy per-unit prices. Granted we've got a couple of ARM cores instead of a single PPC 603 and a clock speed ramp but that's it.
If they snap out of that crap, perhaps, one day we'll reach utopia.
Then again, fucking rich engineering companies over for wads of cash is better for business.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI don't know that it's by choice. The market is small, and the problems are not easy. Software compilers have had tons of effort, money, and mathematical knowledge thrown at them for the past several decades. HDL-to-FPGA synthesis and place/route on the other hand has been driven by only a few companies, and hasn't been around nearly as long.
- alecdibble 13y agoIt's definitely a chicken-and-egg problem. All I meant by my comment is that I can't see FPGAs taking off if people are stuck connecting together IP or using Verilog/VHDL. It's just too low level.