> Our parts supplier assured us that this part is supported by the FREE tools.
Good to hear. Thanks! > Although the tools are free, it would be interesting to have open > source synthesis tools. > > Chip synthesis, is, of course, an NP-complete (or worse) problem, so I > don't see OSS synthesis tools being right on the horizon. But perhaps > this project will encourage some development in that eventually. It would be cool if that happened. From what I understand though, the really hard part of making synthesis tools is that the structure of the bitfiles themselves is generally not published. It would be a bit like writing a compiler for a totally undocumented processor. The algorithms are difficult, but that final layout step is the real killer, from what I've read. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
