Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program
by krasin on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:48PM
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Open source FPGA toolchains begin to appear, mostly on the low-end for now. And because all FPGA vendors are doing such a terrible job for tooling, Yosys and friends are likely the future.
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Re:Intel discontinues pathfinder for RISC-V program
by FullyFunctional on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:06PM
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Very true; Lattice Semi’s ECP5 is a fairly decent FPGA with very mature support from Yosys/nextpnr/trellis.
Xilinx’ Artix-7/Kintex-7 are much more powerful FPGAs and the support for those is getting to be pretty good (DDR3 support is steadily maturing)
It would be nice to see a vendor actually officially supporting these efforts. Maybe one day.
(Not to mention various open source FPGAs - actual chips - being developped)