Hi Lourens, On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:46, Lourens Veen wrote: > 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.
As I understand it, only the "net list loader" (is that what they call it?) that loads the synthesized logic into the FPGA is not available as a free tool. I for one can live with that so long as Xilinx lets ogc users have the free webpack, and the webpack supports the 4000. How about you? > 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. I am not sure at all that you are in the minority. Time to take a poll? Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
