I am evaluating them to see if they would be any benifit for a project I am working on. So far I have not been able to run the Xilinx tool because they do not support the current version of Mathworks. From what I can tell it is possible that the whole design could be done in Simulink using the Altera tools, but I find myself asking why. The only real benifit I can see is that the Mathworks tools make a great functional simulation tool. I guess I could see where the wiring could be faster for some people. I am surprized that Altera does not have all of the Simulink functions in the Mega libs.
Has anyone used one of these tools? What's your thoughts?