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I don't understand the logic there. No FPGA vendor will ever turn a profit on their EDA-ware, and nobody would ever buy an FPGA without it. Open the stuff up an
by fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
I don't understand the logic there. No FPGA vendor will ever turn a profit on their EDA-ware, and nobody would ever buy an FPGA without it. Open the stuff up and let people do some of the heavy lifting. They can still sell value-added bits and bobs if the want, and can concentrate on usability, something they sorely need to do.
- minthd 11y agoIn business - "the hard part" == "competitive advantage" . If you open source that , soon you'll see more competitors knocking on your doors. For example, if intel wanted, it could have built a decent FPGA, probably in a reasonable time(there were startups that built decent fpga's). But building good fpga software ? that it couldn't do, first because it's really hard and second because you need tens of thousands of designs from your customers to run on this in ordered to make good software. That's not something acquirable.
- aswanson 11y agoBut whatever level of advantage they have here now is negated by xilinxes existence of a toolset with roughly that level of engineering effort. So why not, in the least, consider damaging the only true competition by opening up?