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Also skeptical of this one. Tooling seems kind of beside the point? It's like arguing that your school taught you Python and that didn't prepare you for Java (o

• ktta 9y ago
  Bulk of the work is done in simulation and verification with FPGAs.
  • DigitalJack 9y ago
    This is true, but those tools doesn’t change that often at a given company. VCS and questa probably cover 99% of the fpga market.
    • ktta 9y ago
      That's exactly my point. You don't get access to those tools in school unless you are in an excellent graduate program AFAIK if that. The simulation I can do in Vivado is apparently nothing compared to the scale those tools take it to. I've talked to someone in the industry that they told me Vivado's simulation is only okay for beginner projects.
• DigitalJack 9y ago
  Tooling is most definitely not beside the point. And if your focus is backend, that is what you spend most of your time on.
  • throwaway613834 9y ago
    > Tooling is most definitely not beside the point. And if your focus is backend, that is what you spend most of your time on. The question isn't what you spend your time on though. It's what is worth spending time teaching/learning in school. You also spend all your time using a mouse and keyboard but (hopefully) you don't take courses to learn how to use the mouse and the keyboard in school. If most people could pick it up in a short period of time on the job then it doesn't seem a worthwhile use of time to teach in a course.