On Thursday 05 May 2005 18:36, Timothy Miller wrote: > > My partners and I can afford to buy our own copies of the tools. The > bigger problem is making them available to end users.
Or replacing them with free alternatives. Which is probably practically impossible due to the proprietary nature of the FPGA itself (IIRC, someone here linked to a project that tried to do so some time ago, but they ran into this problem). Anyway, a discussion on the need for free hardware development tools is probably something for a different forum. I'm probably in the minority here (and of course this won't be an issue for the ASIC) so don't let this weigh in too heavily, but I've gotten rid of all proprietary software, and I'm not going back. It's just way too much of a hassle. Lourens
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