Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013)
by ShinyCyril on Sunday March 13, 2016 @06:49AM
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Just a shout-out about the Icestorm project which provides a complete open-source toolchain for Lattice's iCE40 FPGAs. It's mostly the work of one guy (Clifford Wolf): http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/.
It's worth noting that arachne-pnr (https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr) is written by a different person (Cotton Seed).