Vivado Design Suite

“is a much smaller install than Vivado”

“Calling it "free" or "freeware" is either a shameless attempt to obfuscate what it really is”

“Offering freeware as marketing gimmick so you can work in the most propietary closed software domain”

“Trust is hard to gain, but easy to lose.”

“They are dropping the "free tier" or licence, if you will, because either a) they are starting to see this tier being used for commercial applications”

“If AMD / Xilinx would publish the documentation what you would need to use their chips, probably very few would use Vivado or ISE.”

“Bloated and slow, but almost everything is automatable via TCL.”

“The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs faster & has fewer bugs.”

“While Vivado/Vitis etc do amazing things, I challenge anyone to find a person who enjoys using them without TCL interfaces.”

“there is no way to use most of their hardware without Vivado. So it's more like they are blocking you from using things you've already paid for”

“I just can't see that cost of having a free Linux version (on top having a paid Linux version) is big?”

“The truth is we just figured that we could make more money by charging more money for things that we didn't previously charge for.”

“The quality of the software stack was awful . The FPGAs were getting big enough that the synthesis process could need more 4GB of user memory”

“AMD benefits from every single FPGA sale so all they did was reduce the number of FPGAs they will sell, by locking out customers.”

“Their business is selling the hardware. Their money should come from selling the hardware.”

“It took a small company I worked for months to get new licenses due to AMD just not responding”

“the Windows version is vastly inferior to the Linux version with regards to multithreading and other capabilities”

“just to start out you are looking at a 110+ GB size for their tools, which as far as anyone can tell, isn't really justified by anything”

“since there's a pipeline from students and hobbyists to professional use, it's risking the future”

“It's not clear that I have the Yosys and open source options for my Xilinx based fpgas.”

“The only people hurt by the removal of free trial software for Linux are students and amateurs.”

“AMD is making more than enough money from hardware sales to fund the software that actually makes is usable.”

“Dropping Linux support on the free tier feels like a huge step backward for hobbyists and students.”

“One would've thought they had learned from their supposed driver superiority over Nvidia due to embracing Linux users with OSS drivers”

“I suspect they're massively underestimating how many hobbyists and students are on Linux.”

“AMD wants people to pay for their software.”

“for the latest version (and future versions) of the software an existing free tier has been withdrawn from Linux users - and only from Linux users.”

“This kind of decision is a masked price rise of the AMD FPGAs that applies only to small businesses and individuals”

“You'd think removing friction on the software side for someone who already bought their hardware would be in their interest.”

“It is abusive to request an additional big payment in order to use the bought product as intended.”

“This is terrible news for university users trying to professionalize their FPGA development with CI/CD.”

“Windows cannot provide feature parity for workloads that require cross compiling, AMD could at least support RHEL like the old days.”

“vendors like AMD/Xilinx can pull shitty moves like what OP highlighted, knowing there is no decent alternative”

“Restricting Linux will only alienates students, hobbyists, and devs who want to adopt AMD tech.”

“AMD is removing linux support from their free 'basic' licence for Vivado - their FPGA tool.”

“Some software (looking at you, Vivado) can take incredible amounts of memory per parallel job”

“the tools usually give fine results, but indeed can be wrong sometimes”

“you can get Vivado working on Debian guest, macOS host trivially like that”

“The intended workflow is to click around in the GUI until it (hopefully) synthesizes something.”

“it's compatible with standard version control, CI tools, regression tests and the other nice things”