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Re:A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs by mmastrac on Sunday May 10, 2015 @05:26PM (#9521377)
IMO: FPGAs are an interesting beast because they've been inaccessible to a lot of people thanks to the poor and/or expensive tooling and development boards.

That's starting to change slowly and people are getting interested in trying something new.

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Re:A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs by aylons on Sunday May 10, 2015 @05:32PM (#9521397)
Well, good development boards are cheaper nowadays, Vivado is slightly better than ISE, but pro tools are still very expensive and, of course, terrible.

Actually, most discussions here in HN are about how bad FPGA tools are.

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