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But they're right that the tolchain is still a nightmare though!

• tails4e 4y ago
  As a hardware engineer I think the vivado toolchain is brilliant, and way way better than the toolchians I have to put up with in ASIC design. The sad fact is low level HW design is very difficult, and making tooling help simplify this immensely hard. I don't know of a FPGA/ASIC toolchain that is better, do you? Compared to SW toolchians im sure it appears horrendous, but custom HW requires logic synthesis, clocking, timing, simulation, debug, with cross probing back to the source code at any point in the flow. Layering an SDK on top of this for embedded SW. It even has tools to help create hardware from C (HLS). Nothing else for HW I've seen is this well integrated or powerful. And it's for free. Sure people rag on it, but appreciation for the magnitude of what it is providing is difficult for those coming from a SW background