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javawizardtoday at 6:16 AM1 replyview on HN

That's why nextpnr exists :)

https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr

As someone actively working on nextpnr support for a fairly new FPGA architecture, it really is amazing that we have something like that in the open source world.

YosysHQ are one of my favorite companies to exist.


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epsilon537today at 9:41 AM

Nextpnr and Project X-Ray are amazing projects. Reverse engineering the physical map of, say, a 7-series FPGA is no small feat. However, I wonder if they'll ever be able to really compete with Vivado without getting access to the characterization models for timing. I would love to switch over, but the Fmax of my project routed with nextpnr is less than half of what I get with Vivado.