> The problem is that you either need to be able to draw schematics or you need to be able to design in Verilog or VHDL. That means 99.99% of all programmers ar

> The problem is that you either need to be able to draw schematics or you need to be able to design in Verilog or VHDL. That means 99.99% of all programmers are excluded. I mean, one of the reasons they gave for it being useful was so they could learn to program FPGAs, so this seems like a moot point. But yeah, the tools suck. Especially Microchip's.