Xilinx software quality - how low can it go ?!

Antti · 2007-04-30T08:55:46+00:00

HiI really dont understand why Xilinx isnt hiring people who can developand test software?Is the world-wide shortage of engineers really that bad?Latest example:MicroBlaze Working Design with EDK 8.1Update to EDK 8.2 -> DDR Memory failing (was working with 8.1)Update to EDK 9.1 -> :./ line 2: $'': command not found!?If Xilinx really does ANY software testing before release things likethat should no happen.With ALL latest major releases the "time to first fatal error" fromthe new install has beenless than 20 minutes. This is not acceptable for software that is tobe used to developcommercial products.Should i go back to EDK 8.1 for this one design?Antti,who really doesnt want to start another fight to get the buggy xilinxsw to work.

Apr 30, 2007 61 Replies

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Jim Granville 19 years ago

Imagine if they open sourced this, someone might be able to actually fix it, and then everyone would benefit....

Xilinx ? Sounds like a good place to start ?

-jg

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ammonton 19 years ago

There's nothing stopping Xilinx from developing in private repositories, contributing the changes when the new device is launched. The private repository would also be the natural source for Xilinx' "official" supported tool releases. This is how much development is done for eg. GCC and the GNU binutils. The benefit is that since it's all open source changes flow both ways.

-a

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