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I wish I knew what this person was using them for :-) Has anyone made a similar comparative study of my biggest gripe with FPGAs: the quality of the (more or l
by lvh 12y ago
I wish I knew what this person was using them for :-)
Has anyone made a similar comparative study of my biggest gripe with FPGAs: the quality of the (more or less mandatory) development software? In my experience, it's pretty horrendously terrible :(
- willvarfar 12y ago(Sorry for the down vote, meant to up vote; HN UI is prone to misclicks especially from mobile users)
- InclinedPlane 12y agoI neutralized yours, no worries.
- linuxlizard 12y agoYeah, tools from hardware vendors are notoriously awful. Embedded debuggers (JTAG) are almost always terrible, too.
- moher 12y agoI agree, the whole toolchain is extremely bloated and still growing. My academic teacher simply refused to upgrade Xilinx ISE in the lab and the only thing that could force him to upgrade was eval board that wasn't supported by the old version.
- sliverstorm 12y agoEmbedded debuggers (JTAG) are almost always terrible Weeeell debugging is difficult by nature. No such thing as code stepping, all you can really do is examine waveforms.
- joelby37 12y agoA few years back I was working on a PhD project that involved software defined radio for tracking wildlife in real time, which was an ideal FPGA project. With a limited budget I was keen to find the cheapest boards out there, and decided to start maintaining the list. Sadly I don't have much time to use them from day to day any more, but still help people out when they email. The comparison of development environments is a great idea which I'll definitely work on! They have a baffling range of paid editions with different featured and it's difficult to know what they all mean and why you'd want them. Thanks for the idea :)