Comment by 15155
1 day ago
> It irritates me to no end that Gowin won't open their bitstream format because they'd displace a bunch of the low end almost immediately.
All of their IDE/programmer/etc binaries are basically entirely unprotected, almost all of their chips are entirely implemented in https://github.com/YosysHQ/apicula - if other manufacturers cared to implement it, it wouldn't be hard.
Support is stuck at the old levels--none of the GW5 series are implemented. This is just like how the Lattice support is similarly stuck at the ice40/ECP5 level which is almost a decade old.