On 11/13/2011 12:17 AM, Mouse wrote:
I'm much less concerned about tools than I am
about documentation on
the hardware's interface, on what the bits in the blob thrown at the
hardware mean (and how to thrown them at it, though that part is much
more likely to be documented). I would probably find open-source tools
useful mainly as hardware documentation, though if they are properly
designed I might be able to pull off their UI and stick on something I
find usable.
The Xilinx FPGA tool suite, at least, can be driven from Makefiles.
Fast, efficient, predictable, automatable...very nice indeed. You don't
HAVE to use their bloated, lumbering IDE.
ra$ du -sh /usr/local/Xilinx
13G /usr/local/Xilinx
ra$
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA