Are there any open or at least standard FPGAs that the open source community flock to? Last time I looked into FPGAs, it was mostly closed architecture and proprietary tools

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Neywiny 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Not for anything mid to higher range, but I believe there's open source tooling for some of the older Lattice and Xilinx parts. I would say for me it's not as big a deal as on the software side, because each vendor's hardware tends to be pretty different from each other anyway.

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alfiedotwtf 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Dang, sounds like there’s still a bit of lock in. That’sa shame

	▲	Neywiny 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think there will always be vendor lock in. The same way there have been architectural differences between Intel and AMD's x86, or even stuff like one specific chip/family tanking performance because one instruction was implemented differently, you won't be able to guarantee efficient utilization of different vendor/families. For example, I've taken code optimized for Xilinx, ran it for another vendor, and resource count ballooned because stuff that was built-in/free on one wasn't on the other. It's a lot of work to truly make generic code and usually just means switching out modules per vendor.