The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It
The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It No comments by: Al Williams October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there are a few oddities about it. In addition, simulation is through a third-party simulation package that has undergone some changes since an acquisition.
- ▪The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It No comments by: Al Williams October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA.
- ▪The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there are a few oddities about it.
- ▪In addition, simulation is through a third-party simulation package that has undergone some changes since an acquisition.
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The FPGA Chronicles: Open Source It No comments by: Al Williams October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but it isn’t open source, and there are a few oddities about it. In addition, simulation is through a third-party simulation package that has undergone some changes since an acquisition. There are tons of free simulation programs that are extremely good, and there is an open-source toolchain for the FPGA. You could go grab everything you need piece by piece. But you don’t have to. There are several efforts to produce a toolchain from all the different pieces. We’re going to look at APIO.
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