Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

Post by indrora » Thu, May 28, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

HNisCIS wrote: post #15

jkubic wrote: post #8

I’ve spent several hundred thousand on Xilinx FPGAs yet they nickel and dime me for licenses. It’s not the cost that’s a problem—-it’s the hassle of making a PO for a license to set up new computers, set up CI, hiring new teammates, setting up for interns/students. Xilinx has continued to go downhill since their acquisition by AMD.. it used to feel like it was run by engineers who understood their customers, now it s…

This x10000 I can get parts, they're part of a BOM that gets approved, but getting POs approved for software is a pain in the ass. Been considering switching next gen stuff to microchip.

Post by KallDrexx » Thu, May 28, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

_humenberger wrote: post #233

KallDrexx wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW I'm using Yosis for my Ice40 Lattice FPGA purely because their Linux support is bad. Getting a free hobby license requires emailing them with MAC addresses (which means I have to do that for my desktop, laptop, and again for any future machine I may get). Then getting the tools to actually run on Linux seemed to be impossible that I just gave up. It's not clear that I have the Yosys and open source options for m…

https://github.com/openxc7 Does support all FPGAs from the Series7 (Spartan7, Artix7, Kintex7, Zynq70xx)