<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dailykoder</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s what I used to believe and it&amp;#x27;s probably true, but I think it will not really happen. You just don&amp;#x27;t need FPGAs for most things. Especially if you just like to tinker around. I mean we have Microcontrollers running at 600MHz+. That&amp;#x27;s usually fast enough to get things sorted in software.&lt;p&gt;I do have hell of a lot fun designing my own CPUs and other hardware on FPGAs, but I&amp;#x27;ve been doing this for a couple of years now and whenever I talk to someone who hasn&amp;#x27;t done any development in that direction yet, I often have to remind myself that hardware development is just a completely different mindset.&lt;p&gt;Yes, copy pasting a few logic gates into vhdl is easy, but I don&amp;#x27;t know how you would go on from that if you just want to have fun. Getting something done in hardware can be really frustrating sometimes. Maybe all the &amp;quot;new-age HDLs&amp;quot; might be a solution to this - i have to admit i haven&amp;#x27;t really tried them out yet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I use to say this whenever I see anything related to FPGA: the FPGA world needs it&amp;#x27;s equivalent to Arduino. Before the Arduino, the world of microcontrollers was dominated by bad proprietary tools; the FPGA world suffers of the same illness today.&lt;p&gt;We really need to fix this before FPGA&amp;#x27;s falls in the hands and hearts of any willing hobbyist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC</title><url>https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/logik</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Ticktok</author><text>The (Upduino)[&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyvision.ai&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;upduino-v3-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyvision.ai&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;upduino-v3-1&lt;/a&gt;] and the (pico-ice)[&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyvision.ai&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;pico-ice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tinyvision.ai&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;pico-ice&lt;/a&gt;] try to meet that solution to me. Both cheap, easy to use fpga boards that are completely compatible with the opensource toolchain.</text><parent_chain><item><author>marcodiego</author><text>I use to say this whenever I see anything related to FPGA: the FPGA world needs it&amp;#x27;s equivalent to Arduino. Before the Arduino, the world of microcontrollers was dominated by bad proprietary tools; the FPGA world suffers of the same illness today.&lt;p&gt;We really need to fix this before FPGA&amp;#x27;s falls in the hands and hearts of any willing hobbyist.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Logik: Open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC</title><url>https://github.com/zeroasiccorp/logik</url></story>