What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service

Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by planteen on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:03PM (#13155436)

I don't think that is it. The tools aren't open source free, but they are dollar free.

Xilinx is the leader in FPGAs and their tools are free. Lattice tools are also free. Not sure about Altera, who is #2.

I've worked multiple places that shipped products using only the FPGA vendor's free offerings. The FPGA vendors see the tools as a way to sell silicon.

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by spilk on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:25AM (#13156044)

Altera was acquired by Intel last year and they dropped the Altera brand - they are now Intel FPGA.

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