[Open-graphics] Documenting Hardware Design Process

[John Griessen]

There's this:

http://research.cs.berkeley.edu/project/slipway/
http://www.megacz.com/research/megacz-fccm07.pdf

He uses icarus, then some code of his to do finer than possible with Atmel tools
FPGA P&R.  Could be a starting point for open tools...but uses odd devel tools, (darcs Haskell).
He claims to have a project in the works for a more mainstream FPGA, but won't say yet.

John Griessen

Attila Kinali wrote:
  i was astonished that people accept
> that level of quality of software and support.
> 
> It is really time that we replace those comercial packages
> with something OSS... then we can at least fix the bugs
> ourselves.
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 >> What can the really expensive tools do that Icarus can't?
 >
 > They can actually synthesize our HDL code. There is currently no
 > OSS solution for either FPGA or ASIC synthesis.
 >
 > 			Attila Kinali
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 > With some attention, we could probably get Icarus to synthesize to a
 > target architecture or at least to an intermediate netlist that we can
 > map.  (We could write our own Verilog parser, but let's see if we can
 > avoid reinventing the wheel.)
 >
 > As for P&R, I had been conversing from someone who has posted to
 > gEDA-dev about this.  He had some kind of background knowledge about
 > P&R tools, and with my AI (read: search and optimization) background,
 > I figure we can do this.  We just need to get people involved.