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If you can afford to buy this chip, you wouldn't be worried about the price of tools. But still the situation is much better now than it was in the past. For medium or smaller devices, Ultrascale or Zynq, everything is free, and you don't even need a license. Just install and go. AMD/Xilinx has moved towards a more standard programming environment, Github, open source embedded Linux, etc. Much less of a headache.