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Meneth 3 hours ago

That's what you get for using unfree software.

lefra 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no free alternatives, because AMD doesn't document the bitstream format (i.e. what you need to push to the FPGA to program it to do wha you want).

15155 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn't why there are no free alternatives: there are for 7 Series chips. Free alternatives have terrible QoR.

rob_c 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm fairly sure the FPGA space is big enough there are alternate products for most of the offerings

tliltocatl 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Xilinx has the best silicon. Everyone else is behind. Altera is basically dead thanks Intel. Lattice is nice for low power but performance-wise they are behind. Don't know much about Microchip, but from the little I've heard their tooling is a disaster even by the standards of FPGA tooling. Then there are Gowin (not bad, but Chinglish docs and everything), Gatemate (pretty innovative and vendor-backed nextpnr support - but only one low-mid FPGA with a promise to release chiplet assemblies of it latter). And Effinix - don't know much about them, do anyone have experience?