Yeah, what stops me usualy plonking one in my project is the 20GB of IDE I'll have to install to have the pleasure of seeing it take /forever/ to do it's thing.
However this has just changed. There is an excellent project at http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ that has reversed the format for a series of the Lattice FPGA and provide an open source end-to-end solution... And AFAIK they haven't been told off for doing so.
I therefore have one of their USB stick evaluation board on my desk to have a play with as soon as I can. They also have 'hacker friendly' packages.
However this has just changed. There is an excellent project at http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ that has reversed the format for a series of the Lattice FPGA and provide an open source end-to-end solution... And AFAIK they haven't been told off for doing so.
I therefore have one of their USB stick evaluation board on my desk to have a play with as soon as I can. They also have 'hacker friendly' packages.