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by dragontamer
1737 days ago
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FPGAs are incredibly closed, outside of Lattice Semiconductor's tiny FPGAs (unsuitable for computers). In all practicality for "openness", any open-source advocate should rather use Intel/AMD than Xilinx/Altera. Closed-source synthesizers, closed source bootup, closed source loaders, etc. etc. You're pretty much trusting the FPGA software more than any CPU. |
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That's an ironic comparison to make -- Intel bought Altera in 2015, and AMD is in the process of acquiring Xilinx.
Between the two, though, there's been a lot more work done on open toolchains for Xilinx FPGAs.