What&#x27;s sad is that not only could the tools be made better, an open bitstream would allow applications such as using FPGAs for general-purpose computation. There&#x27;s a huge market to be had there, currently being completely overtaken by GPGPU. The FPGA vendors are just not realizing the opportunity they&#x27;re missing. They&#x27;re more interested in protecting their &quot;IP cores&quot;.