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Quite a few groups of lower-end Xilinx FPGAs (e.g, XC7S6/15, or XC7A15T/35T/50T) are all physically the same silicon, but are sold under multiple SKUs with different chip IDs, with the synthesis software forced to leave some percentage of the area unused. Open-source synthesis tools would probably break this part of their business model. :)


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