Even with free VHDL tools, what are you going to do with the netlist (the output from your VHDL compiler)?? Open source hardware is going to become _much_ more exciting when we start seeing reconfigurable logic in comodity appliances. i.e. when soundcards/toasters start shipping with FPGAs onboard, only then will we, as individual programmers become excited by the idea of downloading an ARM7.
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Even with free VHDL tools, what are you going to do with the netlist (the output from your VHDL compiler)?? Open source hardware is going to become _much_ more exciting when we start seeing reconfigurable logic in comodity appliances. i.e. when soundcards/toasters start shipping with FPGAs onboard, only then will we, as individual programmers become excited by the idea of downloading an ARM7.