There's one open FPGA toolchain out there, and it's for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs. http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
David Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:10 PM, ben <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/6/2015 8:39 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: >>> On 24 November 2015 at 22:42, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> What I was really interested in was whether the FPGA itself was open. >>> If so, I definitely would have wanted to pick up the hardware, because >>> I would love to experiment with an FPGA - but I am _not_ going to put >>> up with running a vendor binary blob (which probably won't even run on >>> my machines) to get an undocumented blob to throw at the hardware. > > I don't see that as a problem. Treat it like a rom image. > What is a problem old FPGA's vanish just once you get the hardware debugged. > Now back to debugging my FPGA cpu ( Altera DE1 ). > Ben. > >
