board-level simulation?

Have any of you tried to simulate the pre-configuration startup conditions of an FPGA? Sometimes pins are tied high, tied-low, etc. Sometimes the chip comes out of reset before clocks are ready, etc. Sometimes the configuration logic is broken.

Board level bring-up with FPGAs always seems to require lab debugging of reset issues because these things are not normally properly simulated.

It would sure be nice if tool generated back-annotated netlist included the FPGA startup logic, or at least an approximation of it.

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