Free FPGA Software Suggestion

[bostonman]

I've tinkered with FPGAs in the past and had a copy of Xilinx ISE through my company (maybe back in 2010). Now I no longer have a free copy, but think Xilinx is too expensive and more for high end users.

Does anyone know a good piece of software that's free and is something that will be supported in the future?

[ataradov]

All vendors provide free software for low end FPGAs. And if your FPGA costs $700, you can probably afford the software too.

Also, there won't be free generic software, since there is no documentation for the FPGAs.

There is an open source project for Lattice ICE40, but that's pretty limited.

Also, specifically for Xilinx, ISE is discontinued in favor of Vivado.