Developing open-source FPGA tools

Re:Developing open-source FPGA tools by typon on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:54PM (#21528712)

If you're using Intel's Quartus tool (Altera), pretty much every option is exposed through a Tcl API. You can accomplish everything without ever opening the GUI. The biggest problem is that those Tcl APIs are usually not documented very well...even for us internal developers (I used to develop Quartus)

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Re:Developing open-source FPGA tools by amaterasu on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:46PM (#21529354)

The situation for Vivado (Xilinx) is more or less the same, Tcl for everything but terrible documentation.

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Re:Developing open-source FPGA tools by monocasa on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:18PM (#21531815)

Same for Lattice Diamond. Was nice for CI, but didn't help much with collaboration and merges for the reasons others have stated here.

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