There is reputedly an open-source toolchain for the Lattice ICE40, based on 
reverse-engineering the bitstream:
http://hackaday.com/2015/05/29/an-open-source-toolchain-for-ice40-fpgas/
Industry leaders Xilinx and Altera remain closed as always.
--Bill
      From: Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org>
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> The new version runs on a custom RISC processor, implemented in an FPGA, ins$

Is the FPGA documented?  Or is it yet another "run this binary-only
(and usually Windows-only) program to get an undocumented blob to feed
to the hardware" FPGA?  I've been semi-looking for the former for quite
some time, to no avail so far.

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