[SuperMouse]

Most FPGA vendor tools can be used from the console. But they are very fat.

[polalavik]

I know of a few vendor tools whose application size is measured in the multi-hundred of GBs

[topspin]

How does that happen?

When I see this, I suspect the vendor is operating under conditions that approach absolute chaos: dumping whatever junk someone imagines might be necessary into the stack with zero resistance, for years on end. Zero effort spent on any factoring that might threaten redundancy.

[SuperMouse]

Xilinx and Altera want to talk to you :-)