Xliinx/AMD: no more free Linux licenses...

[Melkhior]

Darn. No more lifelong licenses, it's all annualized now (so they can change the terms more easily I suppose), and the new free version is only on Windows not Linux.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/sof...ions.html#tabs-cbefba2790-item-c03136817a-tab

Well, I guess it's the end of the line for my Artix-7 base projects :-( Version 2025.2 will be enough to work with the current hardware, but not a lot of point in creating new hardware when the software support is gone.

 

[paws]

What a weird decision.

 

[Phipli]

It was bad enough as was - the amount of effort with signups and agreements and the pure size of the installs meaning I had to keep deleting them to get space back were part of what held me back learning FPGA stuff for both main manufacturers.

Guess that they have no interest in home users, which is sort of fair enough, except that once in a while, playing at home is where a big product comes from. I have no doubt that Arduinos drive decades of AVR sales.