Compare iverilog to VCS or xcelium, while it's brilliant, it's not even close in features or performance, and there is nothing preventing the OSS community from making it better, so the question is why? is it just a lack of people with the right mix of skills (both SW and HW is rare enough), or something else?
Synthesis, place and route are all much harder than simulation, so I don't think tools like vivado would suddenly be better if open sourced. Also I think vivado is great, but I seem to be in the minority on that one, but I guess it's my perspective as a HW designer dealing with HW tools all my life, vivado is a breath of fresh air.
Synthesis, place and route are all much harder than simulation, so I don't think tools like vivado would suddenly be better if open sourced. Also I think vivado is great, but I seem to be in the minority on that one, but I guess it's my perspective as a HW designer dealing with HW tools all my life, vivado is a breath of fresh air.