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FPGAs aren't going to take off until there's an open source toolchain to program them. Sure, vendors provide free-as-in-beer licenses for their smaller chips a
by marshray 13y ago
FPGAs aren't going to take off until there's an open source toolchain to program them.
Sure, vendors provide free-as-in-beer licenses for their smaller chips and one-off development boards. But the generally useful version will set you back $2 - $3K.
- astrodust 13y agoThis has been the biggest pain point for me trying to use the MojoBoard (http://embeddedmicro.com http://embeddedmicro.com). It's a decent FPGA, but the tooling is entirely reliant on the Windows or Linux ISE program and you're almost entirely dependent on the IDE. The "loader" is disjointed from the compiler, too, as the loader is board specific. If there was an open-source FPGA core with an open-source compiler, it'd be a lot easier to work with these things.