Re: Free (as in freedom) FPGA development tools

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:14:41 +0100 Message-Id: <16DF8468-3EF9-4649-8A12-DB4AFCF30C9F@wfmh.org.pl>

> On 2016-12-22, at 14:21, Marko Mäkelä <msmakela@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just encountered an interesting piece of news in Planet Debian.
> 
> It apparently is now possible to use free (as in freedom or Debian Free Software Guidelines) software tools to translate VHDL into Lattice FPGAs:
> 
> https://bits.debian.org/2016/12/fpga-programming-debian.html
> https://wiki.debian.org/FPGA/Lattice
> 
> I look forward to seeing the first use of this for Commodore hardware.  Perhaps someone could develop a switchless ROM cartridge with this? Or something fancier, such as a REU clone, if the supported FPGAs are big enough to accommodate such a design.
> 
> (I hope this is not old news. Reverse engineered support for some old FPGAs has been around quite a while.)

This is obviously interesting. BTW I am still stuck with my search for working set of free like in speech tools that would allow me to program some SPLDs (CPLDs later). Or any tools that would actually work and let me translate synthesizable VHDL designs into  GAL JEDEC files.

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