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		typon on Nov 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developing open-source FPGA tools If you're using Intel's Quartus tool (Altera), pretty much every option is exposed through a Tcl API. You can accomplish everything without ever opening the GUI. The biggest problem is that those Tcl APIs are usually not documented very well...even for us internal developers (I used to develop Quartus)

amaterasu on Nov 13, 2019 [–]

The situation for Vivado (Xilinx) is more or less the same, Tcl for everything but terrible documentation.

monocasa on Nov 14, 2019 | [–]

Same for Lattice Diamond. Was nice for CI, but didn't help much with collaboration and merges for the reasons others have stated here.

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