Re: gEDA-user: Free GNU/Linux hardware design tools

["Christian E." Jørgensen <cej@os.dk>]

Charles Lepple wrote:

> The bottom line is that you're probably not going to find any GPL'd
> place-and-route software for modern FPGAs anytime soon. FPGA makers have
> very little incentive to just release all of the bitstream details of
> their products, and good P+R code doesn't just appear overnight.

Well, that figures. If only hardware makers would tend to making their
hardware and ONLY making their hardware... 

OTOH, I'm sure someone will have discovered the bitstream details by the
time I learn VHDL. :-)

> As for the board, well, from a hobbyist's perspective, the silkscreen art 
> makes up for any flying capacitors ;-)

It IS pretty cool, and there's lots of it!