On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Larry Doolittle wrote: >On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:28:23PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: >> Larry Doolittle wrote: >> > Self-reconfigurable FPGAs have been promised for years, but aren't >> > ready, and probably never will be. >> I guess that's because the fpga makers seem to not want to let out their >> programming details -- probably because they let Mentor and Synplicity >> and the like do all their tools and THEY don't want it let out. > >Tools are certainly part of the story. But it also strikes me as >a chicken-and-egg problem. The user's don't demand or exercise the >tools because of the conceptual problems and the silicon limitations. >
If we are at tools, I wonder... Is there an FPGA family that I could use without using non-free software at all? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
