> I think credit should be given for the standards-based, open architecture approach. True, but then the decision to expose FPGAs as part of the programming i

> I think credit should be given for the standards-based, open architecture approach. True, but then the decision to expose FPGAs as part of the programming interface was absolutely wacky. FPGAs are some of the most proprietary devices on the market, usually requiring a vendor toolchain to even produce working bitstreams for the devices. They defined the interface at the wrong level. They should have developed something like an MII interface and focused on open framing and message protocol formats rather than on open source waveform generators.