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I haven't tried FPGAs yet, just doing basic AVR programming with GCC-AVR and avrdude. Do FPGAs have an open source/hobby community around them like AVR does? I have heard bad things about FPGA companies being old fashioned/secretive.

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It's true that the FPGA vendors are very secretive, often to the point of requiring NDAs for access to datasheets and toolchains.

There is open source tooling for some FPGAs and a fairly small but very helpful community around it.

Yosys, IceStorm, SymbiFlow, and nmigen are the major projects in the space that I'm aware of.