Thee's already cheap ($50 and less) FPGA boards. But all FPGAs are proprietary, ...

noselasd on May 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: MyHDL – Design hardware with Python – Examples

Thee's already cheap ($50 and less) FPGA boards. But all FPGAs are proprietary, there's no available documentation on the internals, the bitstream, and many other things one need to create 3.party/open source tools.

And I also suspect they're hard to impossible to reverse engineer.

DanWaterworth on May 7, 2014 [–]

Here's one attempt: https://github.com/Wolfgang-Spraul/fpgatools