Since the inception of the Programmable Logic industry, the vendor-supported FPGA development tools have been proprietary and closed source. Initially this was simply because that is the way things were done – there were no open standards. But over time, keeping them closed and proprietary enabled a level of influence and control over users. If a designer liked your software, they tended not to change, and that implicitly makes your user base captive.  Open source FPGA tools have been around for a long time, being used primarily by hobbyists and in academia. However, over the past few years, an increasing number of new developers with software backgrounds are gravitating towards open source FPGA development tools.  With companies like Google and Antmicro, as well as several universities, making significant contributions to them, these tools are only going to keep getting better. In this talk, Brian Faith, CEO of QuickLogic, will share their journey from resistance to adoption, how they decided to take the leap into open source FPGA tooling, becoming the 1st Programmable Logic company to do so.