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I mean. The time for an intern to go from nothing to a blinking LED is not an interesting metric at all for a professional tool.

• topspin 6y ago
  Professional tools are judged by such metrics. Manufacturers put tremendous effort into onboarding neophytes because they know whichever stack of tools get the job done with the lowest cost labor will grab a lot of market. The old heads that can write Verilog from memory are trapped in zoom meetings dealing with 'managers.' Sadly this frequently manifests as huge, Eclipse based bloatware with byzantine installation processes and comical fragility. Precious few understand the value of lightweight, robust tools and confuse elaborate graphical wizards and code generators with quality.
  • jeffreyrogers 6y ago
    Typically you just use the tool the vendor provides. Vivado if you're using Xilinx. Quartus if you're using Altera. I agree that the tools are bloated monstrosities whichever one you're using. Source: I'm an FPGA engineer (sometimes).
• bsder 6y ago
  > The time for an intern to go from nothing to a blinking LED is not an interesting metric at all for a professional tool. This is highly dependent upon how often you use the tool. If I do an FPGA project once every two years and the scope is less than 3 months, user-friendliness is very much a useful metric for my tools. If I'm doing an FPGA project that is going to take 15 months, then lack of user-friendliness certainly won't stop me (but it will make me grouchy).