Comment This announcement shouldn't have been posted (Score 1) 208
I think the linux angle is they are just giving gcc ( god love them Xilinx were always kind in this respect) for their powerpc core whooppeedooo,
All the real VHDL FPGA development tools seem to run under windows.
If they gave away the details of the innards of their FPGAs or even better made their stuff run with the few free VHDL tools,
what few are available I'd be impressed.
Vendors always charge an arm & a leg for them ( typically a few thousand euro for stuff that will do larger FPGA's
about 100 euro for student editions for small FPGA's ), asic development software costs typically 50k plus.
Virtex cores aren't cheap either, we had them on our VPN acceleration boards they were over 3000 euro a pop,
they might be down to 1500 euro now.
All the real VHDL FPGA development tools seem to run under windows.
If they gave away the details of the innards of their FPGAs or even better made their stuff run with the few free VHDL tools,
what few are available I'd be impressed.
Vendors always charge an arm & a leg for them ( typically a few thousand euro for stuff that will do larger FPGA's
about 100 euro for student editions for small FPGA's ), asic development software costs typically 50k plus.
Virtex cores aren't cheap either, we had them on our VPN acceleration boards they were over 3000 euro a pop,
they might be down to 1500 euro now.
