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Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#2Dave is a hero for the work that he is doing here. I'm really pleased to see that his Patreon is growing and reaching a non-trivial ("rent") level of monthly funding. Great job everybody who is supporting him!
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#3Dave is a hero for the work that he is doing here. I'm really pleased to see that his Patreon is growing and reaching a non-trivial ("rent") level of monthly funding. Great job everybody who is supporting him!
Yeah it's a big job to tackle (open source software for fpga)
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#4Dave is a hero for the work that he is doing here. I'm really pleased to see that his Patreon is growing and reaching a non-trivial ("rent") level of monthly funding. Great job everybody who is supporting him!
Yeah it's a big job to tackle (open source software for fpga)
But the tools are improving quickly! Because of Dave and the general community. It's really great to watch (and use!).
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#5More info on the patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/fpga_dave
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#6This has been the most exciting software work I've seen in the last year. David is doing fantastic work. If you haven't seen anything about the development of these tools his talk at FOSDEM in February was quite good.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/trellis_and_n...
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#7I think the best way to support this kind of effort is to have more people know what FPGA is and what they can do with it ... So they can use the tools and tinker with this stuff. So if you're into this space just write more content : articles, how-to's, videos, tutorials etc.
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#8For those who are not familiar with silicon vendors' toolchain, it really is very poor quality especially when they started pushing for GUI based Graphical/System development.
Vendors make money selling silicon, they see the toolchain as a necessary evil.
There are 2018 tools that are still unable to fully support VHDL-2008 standard. Many bugs reported years again remain open. And often the GUI centric approach means you are left manually changing ad nauseam several GUI fields and ticking boxes, until you eventually determine what is the tcl 'equivalent' to at least try to ease your pain (tcl scripting often is another pain all together but arguably a lesser evil).
Also specifically with Xilinx they seem to have zero consideration for basic version control and create/duplicate/modify an explosion of files and cached versions of files.
Projects like GHDL and this are a breath of fresh are.
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#9For those who are not familiar with silicon vendors' toolchain, it really is very poor quality especially when they started pushing for GUI based Graphical/System development. Vendors make money selling silicon, they see the toolchain as a necessary evil. There are 2018 tools that are still unable to fully support VHDL-2008 standard. Many bugs reported years again remain open. And often the GUI centric approach means…
Psst…I think you mean "silicon".
Re: Developing open-source FPGA tools
#10For those who are not familiar with silicon vendors' toolchain, it really is very poor quality especially when they started pushing for GUI based Graphical/System development. Vendors make money selling silicon, they see the toolchain as a necessary evil. There are 2018 tools that are still unable to fully support VHDL-2008 standard. Many bugs reported years again remain open. And often the GUI centric approach means…
Psst…I think you mean "silicon".
Haha indeed! I will leave it for traceability.
I had to apply some bathroom silicone sealant over the weekend so I just go ahead and blame it on that.