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scottaronbloom:
2 O J& _" n% u. E, C" N+ BIs it me, or are the look and feel of current FPGA centric EDA tools looking really old?
$ \4 P' m; u; s" H* Y vSynplify looked new and refreshing 10 years ago.. Precision was great 4 years ago... Has Aldec or Modelsim changed at all in look and feel in the last 8-10 years? The FPGA OEM tools, well some are still using the core system that they bought some 10+ years ago for their IDE.
n5 \/ T2 }6 z+ ]Sure the algorithms have been updated, as has QofR and runtime.. : g. |5 B4 x/ V/ K. } Y
Why is it that EDA always puts look and feel so far behind everything else?
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ripple:
8 N5 j1 Q' f' g, B0 J0 }" {always, a new look and feel with the same function under the tool button makes me feel fooled. When Protel 99 became Altium 2004, I spent some time to familialize myself with the new IDE, but soon found that except for some new functions added the fundamental place and route tool are the same. |
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