Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
by phamilton on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:30AM
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Is there one that works with Mac? I have an old one in a box that I haven't succeeded in getting running and I don't anything other than a MBP to run on (and I really don't want to do boot camp...)
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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service
by sonium on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:48AM
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I have actually been looking into this the past couple days:
* The opensource toolchain of icestorm [1] is the only thing running natively on mac.
* Most people run the vendor SDK on virtualbox under windows.
* I heard also of people using wine/playonmac in rare cases.
* I have tried installing the Icecube2 SDK from Lattice virtualized under Linux, because I didn't want to sacrifice the ~30GB discspace for a virtualized Windows. The installation was painful to say the least and I could not get it working on a recent Ubuntu versions because their license manager (Yes, the software is still free) has trouble with the network interface names (expects an eth0 interface).