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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for by linuxlizard on Sunday August 03, 2014 @09:11AM (#8127808)
Yeah, tools from hardware vendors are notoriously awful. Embedded debuggers (JTAG) are almost always terrible, too.
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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for by moher on Sunday August 03, 2014 @09:53AM (#8127899)
I agree, the whole toolchain is extremely bloated and still growing. My academic teacher simply refused to upgrade Xilinx ISE in the lab and the only thing that could force him to upgrade was eval board that wasn't supported by the old version.
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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for by sliverstorm on Sunday August 03, 2014 @01:06PM (#8128439)
Embedded debuggers (JTAG) are almost always terrible

Weeeell debugging is difficult by nature. No such thing as code stepping, all you can really do is examine waveforms.

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