The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It

What happened

The FPGA (a chip whose circuitry can be reconfigured after it is made) Chronicles: Open Source It, according to Hackaday. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there are a few oddities about it. In addition, simulation is through a third-party simulation package that has undergone some changes since an acquisition (one company buying another).

There are tons of free simulation programs that are extremely good, and there is an open-source toolchain for the FPGA. There are several efforts to produce a toolchain from all the different pieces.

APIO APIO isn’t so much an FPGA toolchain project as it is an aggregator of toolchain projects. It updates the tools you need, contains its own libraries, and gives you a common workflow across the FPGAs it supports .

Key facts

• It updates the tools you need, — includes: its own libraries, and gives you a common workflow across the FPGAs it supports