For a power user, vivado is streets ahead of the open source alternatives. The integrated IDE makes working with and debugging performance issues helpful as yo

For a power user, vivado is streets ahead of the open source alternatives. The integrated IDE makes working with and debugging performance issues helpful as you can cross probe between placement, elaborate RTL, timing reports all the way back to the source RTL. Also things like pynq are amazing, blending python, with user defined hardware blocks.