> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs...
> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs faster & has fewer bugs. > just the device-dependent backend would be a major improvement and the frontend and optimizer could be shared with other toolchains That's yosys and it's used by smaller commercial vendors. > or reverse engineering then bitstream format for these FPGAs Getting the timing is the hard part (+ good routing afterwards). The bitstream format has AFAIK mostly been reversed. 7 series has mediocre support , but US, US+ and Versal doesn't (probably because they're too expensive for personal usage).
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> I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after shutdown ...
"Best build quality" is the most important part.
Historically that rarely happens because industrial equipment is/was generally too expensive for the average worker to purchase on t...
I can see why they wanted to change the "RISC-V is inevitable" line.
The GB10 itself is pretty good and I love using mine for broad Linux development.
> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs...
Hetzner has some docs: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/ip/additiona...
> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both.
> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs...
> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs faster & has fewer bugs. > just the device-dependent backend would be a major improvement and the frontend and optimizer could be shared with other toolchains That's yosys and it's used by smaller commercial vendors. > or reverse engineering then bitstream format for these FPGAs Getting the timing is the hard part (+ good routing afterwards). The bitstream format has AFAIK mostly been reversed. 7 series has mediocre support , but US, US+ and Versal doesn't (probably because they're too expensive for personal usage).
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