On 19/10/15 16:08, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
On 19/10/15 15:21, Michael Dorrington wrote:
If you have experience of Free Software workflow on PIC microcontrollers (particularly assembler and upload) or FPGA (particularly place-and-route) then please could you let me know on or off list.
Hi Mike,
Not done much with PIC - if they will hide their free tool chain away, then they can't expect me to use it.
The Microchip tool chain is non-free. :( On improving my searching, I've found `gputils` which looks to do the job:
* http://gputils.sourceforge.net/ * https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gputils
Anyone on list with experience of it?
There is also a simulator `gpsim`: * http://gpsim.sourceforge.net/ * https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gputils
Again, anyone on list with experience of it?
On FPGA, have you seen chiphack.org? There was also a talk at ORCONF last week on free EDA tools. Videos should be up very shortly.
Are the tools all Free Software?
* Quartus II Web Edition * ModelSim Altera Starter Edition * OpenRISC 1000 toolchain
Particularly, is the place-and-route bit Free Software?
HTH,
It does help, thanks.
Mike.