Re: An FPGA card for Apple

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Jan 18, 9:12 am, Mark McDougall <msmcd...@no.spam.iinet> wrote:
> MdntTrain wrote:
> > Just curious -- what are the drawbacks to Xilinx ISE?
>
> Well, my comment was a little tongue-in-cheek because I'm an Altera "fanboy"
> but it is generally accepted that Altera's Quartus software is much nicer to
> use and far less buggy than Xilinx's ISE. I would concur that that is also
> my personal experience - I _hate_ using ISE and have experienced bugs in
> both the user interface aspect and the actual design synthesis as well.

To be fair, ISE is only "hideously clunky" :-)

I don't have any experience with the Altera toolchain (since I'm
something of a Unix & MacOS "fanboy") but I've heard similar things.

On the upside, much of the toolchain is UI over command tools so you
can for example, use Emacs to edit your VHDL ;-)

Matt