Schematic Entry, Xilinx or Altera?

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