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<p>Hi Barry, et. al.,</p>
<p>There are several others on the<a
href="https://github.com/softerhardware/Hermes-Lite/wiki">
Hermes Lite </a>project which started from this one. Openness
has been a fundamental of hpsdr since the beginning. Amateur
radio is a hobby and I for one think the wantabees are important.
<br>
</p>
<p>I'm not an expert with Altera's tools, and despite what Scotty
suggests, I wouldn't put it past Altera to make it so that if your
Verilog was planned with the professional tools, it might not
always be able to be built with free tools. I made a mistake in
the past of using the really nice professional tools to develop
some software, and the tools made it easy to develop, but I had to
keep paying for updates of those tools in order to maintain the
software, and the expense finally became more than the software I
was using was worth. I ditched the professional tools, and
rewrote my software using open tools. The new software had to be
completely different. None of my original work carried over. I
will never again rely on non free tools, and I prefer to rely on
open source tools if I can.</p>
<p>In any case, it needs to be entirely clear and totally sure that
there is no "lock in" on the professional tools.</p>
<p>73,</p>
<p>Rob</p>
<p>KL7NA<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/2017 01:05 PM, Barry Jablonski
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:4a7e4c39-9f08-231d-f09b-2a2df5cf7a1a@att.net"
type="cite">***** High Performance Software Defined Radio
Discussion List *****
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<br>
Hi Helmut,
<br>
<br>
Who is developing FPGA designs (btw, it's VHDL/VeriLog design
information -- not "firmware") besides two people?
<br>
Those developers need real tools.
<br>
<br>
The wantabees aren't developing anything.
<br>
<br>
Wake up.
<br>
<br>
Barry
<br>
WB2ZXJ
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Rob Frohne, Ph.D. P.E.
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