How efficient is DSP builder ?

Hi,

Well you confirmed my thoughts. I don't think that these tools are yet part of the design engineer's culture but they are so common here on the forum.

I believe students are misled into the wrong direction. You can see most of the posts are about tool-related problems and compatibility isssues.

As to specific Altera cores such as fft/NCO...etc then they are very useful generally and are in common use but even then some engineers prefer to do their own as these cores are not always portable or transparent and could be rigid as well as counter-intuitive.

Recently a new tool appeared (C to FPGA compiler) that targets fpga design without going through HDL and is meant for DSP engineers. It also targets specific technology.

It is getting really nasty when it comes to all these tools trying to compete yet extensive hand-made HDL design will always be needed at some point within the system after all.

The issue is not against using other's work. We all work as a team and our modules have to interface with each other. The problem is more to do with the commercialisation and subsequent complexity of parameters, of GUI,of documentation...etc.

Kaz