Re:Arduino raises $32M Series B round
by sbierwagen on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:31PM
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https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products/arduino-mkr-vidor-4000...
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The magical part of Arduino isn't hardware with the Arduino branding, but a great set of open source core libraries & a easy to use toolchain.
This hardware unfortunately doesn't have either of that; it requires Intel Quartus for design and synthesis.
The Vidor is unusable garbage. Arduino's tools provide no support whatsoever for FPGA development on the board -- they haven't even clearly documented the process for uploading a new bitstream to the FPGA. For all intents and purposes, the FPGA is an expensive toy you can use to run their demo bitstream, and that's it.