Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] open-source like hardware
From: Remco Poelstra (rjpoelstra_AT_home.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 21:51:16 EET
> I've had similar exercises, so I guess you also got a copy of the
> XilinX foundation manager...
>
No, I've the Webpack software from Xilinx.
> > From my experience it's horrible to work wit hthem, becuase they
> hardly
> > ever work. (Might be my experience with them, or the low quality
> software
> > we got from uni).
> we also had a lot of problems with foundation manager.
> The fact that they don't work probably is, no offense, a bad design. My
> expierence is that these designs are very complex (timing stuff etc...).
> Most of my designs on FPGA didn't work either.
> Besides, there are no linux tools to program fpga's, as far as I know.
>
There is Icarus, which did some FPGA stuff, but I don't know whether it
could program FPGA's.
I don't think it's really needed that there are linux apps to do that.
There is Windows and there will always be Windows. So why not use it for
those things that Linux doesn't have (yet)?
Perhaps an important thing about designing such a soundcard is to show the
world that open source is more than just a few hackers doing some funny
coding. I mean open source is real and many commercial companies just
don't see that. Designing hardware with people all over the world as
volunteers will take the community a step forward I think.
Remco
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