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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: Re nice article, but...]]></title>
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	            	            Good Catch re Linus being Finnish and not Swedish -- the great thing about TechBites is that you can quickly contact the author to request "tweaks" to an article to correct things like this (I just made that correction by the way).

Hmmm, what a coincidence ... your name being "Mive Claxfield" and mine being "Clive Maxfield" ... a more suspicious man than myself might think someone was "pulling my plonker" as they say in England...	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:57:53 -0500</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: Nice article, but...]]></title>
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	            	            Linus Torvalds is Finnish, not Swedish. The book is wrong too.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: More tools: TCL, Subversion]]></title>
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	            	            I'd also add TCL - tool command language - to the list. It's a de-facto standard in all EDA tools.

Also Subversion for source control. At this point it's more popular than CVS.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:47:08 -0600</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: Valid or verified?]]></title>
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	            	            Max,

You've hit on some very thorny problems. First, in my experience mainline functionality is almost universally correct. The failures mos frequently occur in the margins - cases where nobody thought of that particular combination as anything that somebody would really try, and what do do about semantic mismatch in the english language. It's amazing how imprecise English is in practice.

This in turn leads to the inescapable conclusion that complete validation isn't possible.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:52:44 -0600</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: Fedora Electronics Lab (FEL)]]></title>
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	            	            Great coverage on OSS FPGA design tools! The only project I know of that wasn't covered is the Fedora Electronics Lab ( http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/ ). It is a respin of Fedora with lots of EDA tools in it.	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:42:30 -0600</pubDate>
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	            <title><![CDATA[Creating an Open Source-based FPGA Design Flow: Why limit yourself to Linux]]></title>
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	            	            Why limit yourself ot Linux when you can use the most popular OS in history, Windows. Then you can use Windows based tools and if you really need Linux you can install VirtualPC (MS), VirtualBox (Sun) or VMware player (VMware) to offer a virtual machine for any other tools. Within Windows there are plenty of addons that add all the functionality of Linux.

Some of the Windows tools that I like are:
gcc - available on Windows or Microsoft Visual Studio Express is also free
make - native Windows make tools or batch files
gvim, emacs - notepad++ has tons of addons and is loaded with features
cvs - tons of version control tools run within Windows
perl, python - available for Windows
diff - beyond compare is more useful and integrated into Windows Explorer
grep - agent ransack is great and integrated into Windows Explorer
security tools - too many to even start listing them
any zip - jzip does it all, even CAB and ISO	            ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:46:33 -0600</pubDate>
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