Yes, you do need the vendor's place-and-route. PAR performance is as good as you could expect though. Most complaints about vendor software are closer to the front of the flow. Examples... * Poor language support…
Last time I checked out Christiaan Baaji's CLASH, it was a Haskell DSL for generating RTL. That is neat, but it doesn't involve any LLVM-like abstraction of FPGA primitives for synthesis. That would be more than neat,…
Yes, you do need the vendor's place-and-route. PAR performance is as good as you could expect though. Most complaints about vendor software are closer to the front of the flow. Examples... * Poor language support…
Last time I checked out Christiaan Baaji's CLASH, it was a Haskell DSL for generating RTL. That is neat, but it doesn't involve any LLVM-like abstraction of FPGA primitives for synthesis. That would be more than neat,…