moring

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   by moring 9y ago

   The title says "build systems", but the author is actually speaking about direct replacements for 'make'. Many of the points listed deal with limitations of the compilers involved, and the inability of 'make' o
2. 542.▲
   by moring 9y ago

   The code is at https://github.com/MartinGeisse/mahdl-plugin Feel free to open an issue on GitHub to start a discussion. (I'm hesitant to post my private email address here -- old habits.)
3. 543.▲
   by moring 9y ago

   That makes me wonder whether it would be more DMCA-safe / lawsuit-safe to not reveal the format itself but rather the exact process to discover it (avoiding endless hours of dead-end experiments because of a wrong assumption about the
4. 544.▲
   by moring 9y ago

   Do you have any good source of what these problems are? The reason I am asking is because I too am designing my home-grown HDL at the moment because I grew tired of both Verilog and VHDL. Since I never programmed FPGAs professionally -- the
5. 545.▲
   by moring 9y ago

   To add why an open-source toolchain would be useful: It lowers the barrier to entry for FPGA development significantly. The Papilio project, for example, tries to build an "Arduino for FPGA" and runs into the problem that a full I