AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled by Xilinx Tech

Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by travis729 on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:52PM (#25624603)

I would love to hack on FPGAs but always run into the issue of closed toolchains. The recent open source work is a breath of fresh air, but we need to see an FPGA vender that embraces and sponsors this work.

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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by ohazi on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:44PM (#25625051)

I think/hope it's an unstable equilibrium -- if either Altera/Intel or Xilinx/AMD give a nod to the open source tools, the others will follow.

Lattice is seemingly at "wink wink, nudge nudge" levels of support -- their lawyers won't allow them to say anything because they're afraid of pissing off Synopsys, but they also know that they're currently the best supported platform, and don't seem interested in deliberately making things difficult.

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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by mhh__ on Sunday January 03, 2021 @06:48PM (#25626432)

On paper at least it could be good idea for a company in lattice's position, at very least academics would probably switch.

I would like to see a FAANG try and support some open tools - it doesn't have to be anything legally sketchy like reverse engineering bitstreams - for example, Yosys only has limited SystemVerilog support

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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by WideCharr on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:58PM (#25627519)

Going to plug my work on this here: https://github.com/MikePopoloski/slang

At some point I'd like to see it integrated as the frontend to tools like Yosys to get best-in-class SystemVerilog support in open tools.

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Re:AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be E... by mhh__ on Sunday January 03, 2021 @10:19PM (#25627619)

Good luck

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