Hello, I would like to know how people think about my comments concerning the increasing complexity with today's FPGA's? This will date me but I'm just now learning TimeQuest and admit that it is a very powerful tool but it does take some training to get proficient. Many of my co-workers have stayed with Quartus 9.1 for that reason. With the recent launch of the embedded hard-core processor came another tool that one must pick up and learn, SoC Embedded Design Suite, Altera SDK for OpenCL, SOPC Builder, Qsys. With all these new tools that one must struggle to learn I begin to think that maybe FPGA's are not worth the trouble. Maybe the tools will get too complex and costly in terms of labor that designers will opt for something else such as the new DSP's that have just about every peripheral interface one might need and multiple cores running a 1GHz and higher and all running under one IDE. I am anxious about the Stratix 10 but from what I see so far with the complexity of the tools and the large megafunctions that require the NIOS processor or embedded Linux I'm taking a closer look at other options.
What are other thinking about the complexity with the newer FPGA's and where Altera is going?
Thanks,
joe
What are other thinking about the complexity with the newer FPGA's and where Altera is going?
Thanks,
joe