21 May
2020
21 May
'20
9:07 a.m.
On 05/20/2020 09:22 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote:
As I wrote in my last post, but write here for use as
a separate thread:
I'd be interesting in hearing from folks what toolsets they have used
for HDL (VHDL in particular). I started with Xilinx ISE and then
graduated to Vivado for later chipsets - unfortunately, Vivado seems to
be something of a dog, in terms of time to compile HDL and synthesize logic.
Well,
I don't use the latest, super fast FPGAs, I go for old
standards that are cheap.
Right now, I have ise 13.4 installed on Linux, it seems to
be stable, quite fast for the small FPGAs
I do, and doesn't complain about my coding style. I use
mostly Spartan 3 in the
XC3S50A(N) sizes. I've done some units with 32-bit
counters running at 150 MHz with plenty
of margin left, that's fast enough for me. I only use VHDL,
although I can read Verilog.
(I also use Coolrunner II and XC9500XL devices in some of my
products.)
Jon