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Re: gEDA-user: Programming Altera FPGAs without Quartus
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- From: 9000 VAX <vax9000@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:08:13 -0600
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On 10/23/05, Michael Sokolov <msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Antonio Bergnoli <bergnoli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I know two of such open source software:
> > -flexloader
> > -openwince-jtag
>
> I wasn't talking about the physical loading of the SOF into the chip, I
> was talking about the *generation* of the SOF on the development host
> from EDIF (Icarus Verilog output), i.e., the fitter, place and route,
> and final SOF generator.
>
> MS
>
I believe an SOF downloader is more useful at this point and in the
future. A fitter, placer, and router will be close to impossible to
exist as a open source project. Energy should be concentrated on a
downloader.
vax, 9000