25 Apr
2013
25 Apr
'13
9:24 p.m.
FPGAs (and programmable logic in general) are a lot of
fun despite
the somewhat steep learning curve.
Well...can be. Personally, having to use an undocumented binary blob
of a compiler - which, oh, by the way, almost certainly doesn't run on
either the OS or the CPU architecture I want to run it on, even if I
were willing to run it - kills the `fun' aspect dead.
If you find it fun despite such things? More power to you. I'll stick
to using my `fun' time for things that don't ick me out.
It's really hard to find GOOD FPGA programmers out
there
Given the "use this closed proprietary compiler to generate an opaque
blob which you throw at undocumented hardware" nature of FPGA dev, I'm
not surprised.
I suspect I'd be decent, possibly good, at FPGA programming. But until
either someone is willing to pay me to find out or the hardware gets
documented, that will remain unknown.
I doubt I'm _entirely_ alone in that.
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