This post is sort of timely for me to rant and share with the HN community. I'm a hobbyist with FPGAs .. been fooling around with Altera parts for over a year.

This post is sort of timely for me to rant and share with the HN community. I'm a hobbyist with FPGAs .. been fooling around with Altera parts for over a year. I finally got my first Xilinx part and wow .. at least a part of the company doesn't seem to give a shit. The part I got was a spartan 6 on a Papilio Pro board. The Papilio community are awesome but shame on Xilinx. They provide the Win 10 version of ISE Design Studio inside a freakin VM!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Whoever green lit this has just stopped caring IMHO. I wasted 3 hours of my life getting a hello world style program to run. Imagine running a linux vm inside a Windows 10 box to work with an embedded device :( :( If this is how Xilinx treats old parts, I'm staying with Altera parts in the future. Personal opinions yada yada.