Re: gEDA-user: random project idea

[Igor2 <igor2@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Larry Doolittle wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:28:23PM -0500, John Griessen wrote:
>> Larry Doolittle wrote:
>>  > Self-reconfigurable FPGAs have been promised for years, but aren't
>>  > ready, and probably never will be.
>> I guess that's because the fpga makers seem to not want to let out their
>> programming details -- probably because they let Mentor and Synplicity
>> and the like do all their tools and THEY don't want it let out.
>
>Tools are certainly part of the story.  But it also strikes me as
>a chicken-and-egg problem.  The user's don't demand or exercise the
>tools because of the conceptual problems and the silicon limitations.
>

If we are at tools, I wonder... Is there an FPGA family that I could use
without using non-free software at all?



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