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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by opencl on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:25AM (#17758201)
Every FPGA I have used has offered their proprietary bloated incredibly expensive toolchain on Linux.

There's icestorm but the supported hardware is not exactly high performance, IIRC the biggest chips supported have around 8K LUTs.

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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by baobrien on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:29PM (#17759947)
The proprietary bloated toolchains are free to use for lower end to mid range parts, even on Linux.
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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by opencl on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:41PM (#17760091)
Yes but as as soon as you hit the limits of i.e. Quartus Lite it's $4k per seat per year. Then another $2k for Modelsim. And another $2k if you want the DSP package, etc.
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Re:Why Use an FPGA Instead of a CPU or GPU? by FPGAhacker on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:33PM (#17761116)
That's on the super low end of the price spectrum.
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