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by kingosticks 3364 days ago
This is entirely my experience also. The chips themselves are very expensive and it's exactly why you move to an ASIC for volume as soon as you can. Assuming you can... If you are not shipping in volume then maybe the toolchain licensing becomes an issue. And if you are not shipping because you're a hobbiest, student, etc. then some of them grant you free licenses, they used to at least.