> They have better tools, documentation, and support than Gowin, who is a recent Chinese FPGA upstart using stolen Lattice IP and hires.
Naive of me to ask, but how are they allowed to sell anywhere outside of China?
Naive of me to ask, but how are they allowed to sell anywhere outside of China?
If this is true, then the bitstream for Gowin and Lattice parts would be similar and both are being actively reverse engineered to be supported by OSS tools.
It would be nice to see more evidence of this.
Not only are the patent expired, but there are three projects that generate FPGA fabrics programmatically. FPGAs are extremely easy to construct as they are a repeating lattice.