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0 pointstsss5y ago0 comments

I had to use Vivado once and it was the most miserable experience I ever had with a development environment. Even Haskell has better IDE support. Vivado is super unintuitive, it's slow as fuck, it has none of the basic editing features modern IDEs sport and it has very heavy handed enterprise DRM like you would normally find on CAD tools.

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tails4e5y ago

I hear this a lot, but I really don't get it. The ide is very responsive, when you are interacting with a design, exploring structure or connectivity, static timing analysis, etc.. Perhaps you are referring to synthesising RTL - yes thst is slow, but thats much slower with ASIC tools. Synthesis and PnR is a very cpu intensive task, and is separate from the GUI really. I'd be interested in hearing the specifics of what you found slow.

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