[libre-riscv-dev] XDC video on open source & FPGAs

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Friday, November 15, 2019, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> >
> > that would be good.  bunnie huang explained that with the libre lattice
> > ecp5 toolchain he got 5x better utililisation than the proprietary tools.
>
> Ben Widawsky did mention that there were some cases like that, but he
> thinks that the libre toolchains generally get slightly worse
> utilization.


interesting. i wonder how much of that is not having access to the internal
layout, and how much just that it is early days.

l.



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