Comment by evxxan
Not yet! But that's our next step.
Not yet! But that's our next step.
You can apparently use the open source yosys/nxtpnr tools with the tang nano 9k, but, unless something has changed recently, nxtpnr doesn't work with the 20K yet. However, I found the Gowin tools to work reasonably well (and definitely way less bloated than the Xilinx & Altera tools.)
From what it looks like (Xilinx parts primarily) if I bought one of these boards I'd be stuck using either Altera or Xilinx tools. I think some spartan 7s work with yosys/nxtpnr, but not sure how well.
> The Xilinx tools are very, very good
Ummm... no, that has not been my experience at all. I'd replace 'good' with 'buggy' in that sentence. And also very, very bloated - like 90GB bloated. I've had good experiences using yosys/nxtpnr/SymbiFlow, but that's kind of limited to the Lattice ICE40, ECP5 families and Quicklogic.
tang nano 20k. You can't find any cheaper fpga board than this.