> In particular, when compiling to FPGAs, most of the time one needs to use the > fitters the manufacturers deliver, and they run on Windows (or on Solaris as > the exception). The manufacturers give the fitters often away, because they > want to make money with chips, not software. However the cost of this software > is enormous, and therefore the manufacturers have little interest to make > versions for Linux too - at least as long as they feel they have to provide > them for Windows. I could imagine it would cost less to develop for Linux only. > > I imagine in other engineering disciplines except software engineering it is a > similar story.
Ha! We wish. I work for a software company and we're stuck with Windows tools for any processor except the ones supported by GCC, such as the 8051. I wouldn't mind if the tools are any good, but after using GCC these tools are terrible... Ross Burton
