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Is it worth it to kickstart an open-source FPGA IC project?

manili

Hello all,

 

We know that FPGA itself is a kind of ASIC, i.e. some companies build ICs which have the capability to be reprogramed. We have open-source CPUs, GPUs, Bus Controllers and so many different types of IP cores in the community. Why there is not any sort of open-source FPGA ICs out there, is it because of it's complexity to design or is it even not worth it?

I just saw a project here which was about creating our own EDAs for FPGAs but the project suffered from lack of informations about the FPGA internals so the creator (@johnbeetem) did some reversed engineering, as far as I understood. I asked this question in a Quora comment and Kyle's answer helped me a lot but I need more info, please.

 

Cheers,

Mohammad

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  • I agree with Gene, the utility of FPGA devices fall into a subset of engineering solutions.

    In most cases, you can do the job using an off the shelf MCU, so why go to the complexity of an FPGA unless you have an application with a lot of sales potential.

     

    For most makers, there is just no return on the investment.

     

    DAB

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  • I agree with Gene, the utility of FPGA devices fall into a subset of engineering solutions.

    In most cases, you can do the job using an off the shelf MCU, so why go to the complexity of an FPGA unless you have an application with a lot of sales potential.

     

    For most makers, there is just no return on the investment.

     

    DAB

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