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I use these types of software day to day. The true price is veiled behind multi milkion dollar contract negotiations. You should see the inverse relationship be

• robomartin 13y ago
  > What's more of a challenge is trying to use techniques like continuous integration when your compile time is a week! And your simulation time is another week. And interpreting the results could be another week. I've worked on designs where you can only do one iteration per day to on iteration per week. It really slows down development to a crawl. You learn very quickly to segment designs and validate everything as far as humanly possible before even dreaming of simulating/compiling larger functional blocks. These are ways in which modern hardware design is vastly different and vastly more expensive than any comparable software development workflow. The cost of hardware tools is pretty much insignificant when you consider the entire process. Buying a $50,000 signal analyzer might save you weeks or months of development and debug time. You can't launch into these kinds of startups with a $15K investment over a summer.