And it's not just a philosophical point; EDA software is notoriously crappy, buggy, user hostile, slow, and usually supports are very narrow range of old OSes (and few processors). Having the source means being able to fix ALL that.
cc @latticesemi: Reasons people use iCE40 FPGAs.https://twitter.com/GregDavill/status/979883322389098497 …
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And even if these problems were all fixed in some magical world, closed source EDA software with licensing will never work in an embedded application where you need to make bitstreams on the fly on some random processor/OS combo (ie RPi)
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@latticesemi indeed. When I learnt that there is a feature complete open source toolchain for iCE40 FPGAs I actually did the extra legwork of replacing all the@XilinxInc Spartan FPGAs in it (three Spartan-3, one Spartan-6). Having an open toolchain is such a strong incentive! -
Just notices I ran out of characters up there. It's missing a "in a current project …"
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