Schematic Entry, Xilinx or Altera?
Jan 04, 2006
27 Replies
Sure, one can do nasty async design in schematics, or in VHDL for that matter. But S/360 and Cray and the HP35 and moon rockets were designed before HDLs, and they worked fine. Some people were good at logic design a long time before FPGAs were invented.
I don't have time to learn an HDL. I read the Xilinx book, draw schematics (on paper!), and hand them to a minion to enter and compile. Works great.
John
And some people are still quite lousy with logic design despite having FPGAs and the best HDLs. HDLs do not make a good logic designer, they are simply a tool.
I think you're wrong.
Altera In the field of both user interface and functionlity.
Ah! The academic solution. Where have all the minions gone? Long time passing ...
-- Mike Treseler
Absolutely.
When will they ever learn,
When will they ever learn?
John
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