I think that is a noble and great reason for hope. I just don’t see why they will care when money for their parts doesn’t have to go to the tools. When is the tipping point of “open tools for your competitor are so good, we choose them” happens?
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Blah. That argument is worse than “fix it yourself!” Unless you’ve spent years studying the code, the power to get a fix is no different. Except commercial software you have the power of payment. Maybe small and limited, but better than community standing.
Ah, the good old "FPGA tools are so complicated, you need years of PhD work to do anything" argument. It's nonsense! I know a lot of people working on this kind of software. On free and on commercial projects. I have never heard one of the programmers say something like that. 1/3
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But sales people like to peddle this myth. SUN used similar "arguments" in the 80s regarding compilers. "It's all magic and you need to be a wizzard to do any kind of compiler development." That's not true of course. Today it's the same thing with FPGA tools. 2/3
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I have reported many bugs in Xilinx and Intel/Altera tools. Many of them bugs where the tool silently generates an incorrect circuit (which is a "critical bug" imo). Many of them super easy to fix. But the vendors take years to fix them, if they fix them at all. 3/3
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