Dieter wrote: >>And i'm always astonished when i talk with VLSI/FPGA guys, that >>they can cope with the brokenness of their tools which are by far >>worse than gcc, especially considering what Synplicity and Mentor >>Graphics ask for their tools[1]. > > What choice do they have? You do the best you can with the tools you have. > > Someone should write a FLOSS alternative. Unfortunately that is more than > an easy Saturday afternoon project.
More than that, wouldn't it require considerable reverse-engineering? My understanding from earlier conversations about this is that the interface language used to program the FPGAs is proprietary and undocumented, and that's the real reason there's no free software tools for programming FPGAs. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
