> ... we built out a pretty significant portfolio of these applications solutions and they make it very easy for the customer to adopt our devices into their systems... Very disappointing that on the topic of Software/Toolchain it's more of the same business decisions of just copying the Xilinx/Altera paradigm. Since they seemed rather non-agressive towards Yosys/SymbiFlow they made me quite hopeful that Lattice woul…
It's been like this for over 20 years. I was trying to persuade people on comp.arch.fpga 20 years ago that we should band together and produce some open tools for Xilinx, and I was eager to do it myself. People warned me that Xilinx were legally very aggressive and that I could lose everything I owned. Nobody wanted to get involved then. At one point an academic paper about alternative programming techniques on Xilin…
How well does their FPGAs work and how much can you do with the open source tools (e.g. timing driven synthesis)?