mojn,
Le 2014-04-30 07:21, Torsten Meißner a écrit :
I "just" wish to lower the barreer of entry in the digital design
world,
where commercial solutions are so expensive that people just prefer
to not think about it. This is not a world where break-through
progress can happen. We need a tool that is to VHDL what GCC is to C.
For this purpose a full compatible and VHDL 08 supporting Simulator
would be more useful imho. In the end you have to use the vendor
specific tools for place & route and bitstream generation. But because
these tools are free for the most useable chips, thats not a real
problem or a high barrier. The same for synthesis tools, which are
mostly free for personal use these days...
"free", "not a high barrier"...
you mean "free" as in "free beer", right ?
Then there must be hidden costs...
Why do I "have" to sign a licence agreement,
lock my computer(s) with their flexlm and can't
look at the source code to help myself in case of
a problem ? That's the difference between "it works"
and "it will work well for everybody for as long as we care".
A typical license lasts one year, which is very short
for some of my projects or the support i must provide.
Which is why I care so much about FOSS.
In the end I think it would be more useful to first put energy in GHDL
to full VHDL 08 and PSL support. After that, more also would be useful
and great to have a open source alternative, but as I wrote, I don't
See a real high barrier for people to make stuft with digital logic
like FPGAs.
so maybe the barrier is not in "entry" but in "staying".
Once you have developped your code for one target, what keeps the
maker from totally dropping the chips families, go bankrupt or
unilaterally change the license ? I have seen enough "bait and switch"
in the industry already. You're stuck with code and tools that work
while you are racketted in a way or another.
Regards,
yg
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