|
Message
From: vkataev at mail.uni-paderborn.de<vkataev@m...>
Date: Sun Jul 29 21:45:21 CEST 2007
Subject: [oc] future of open source fpga design tools
Hello Cores,I am sorry if my question isn't directly related to the theme of this
mailing list,
but maybe could someone please help me to understand,
what is the general difficulties in creating open source tools for
digital design/synthesis ?
I suppose it is the same problem like in the case of open source
drivers (e.g. ATI or NVIDIA), because HW Developers do not open their
specifications. But, on the other side, using proprietary FPGA-design
tools you can inspect FPGA ICs interior very precisely.
It is really hard to tolerate all this poor designed, slow proprietary
design/synthesis tools like Xilinx ISO. I wonder if we will have good
FPGA-design Linux tools ever, like todays perfect GCC compiler tools.
Thanks,
Vadim
|
 |
Browse
