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zafka on March 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp

> FPGa vendors in general are extremely secretive about their designs.

That is the part that saddens me. I had always wanted to be able to play with the internal programming. Back when I started they were not anywhere as big, and we almost had visibility.

buildbot on March 31, 2017 [–]

At least with VPR you can define /modify your own FPGA architecture file! They are written in xml and parsed by the tool when doing place and route.

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