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11 years ago

Is DSP Builder intended to be used in design a product?

Hello, my name is Jaime I am envolved in a development of physical layer blocks of a digital TV system. At present I am coding in VHDL but I evaluating to use DSP Builder to reduce development tim...
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11 years ago

From experience of HDL coder (a few years ago), these tools are fine if all you are doing is mathmatics and happy to use the existing IP. If you want to do any control logic, you're better off in VHDL world.

I dont know anyone using DSP builder or HDL coder seriously for FPGA designs in industry. Even if you are using them, you will need to know VHDL to hand code blocks to do interfacing of things that dont easily connect to DSP Builder/HDL coder anyway.

But these tools seem to have been a bit of a FAD. There was a lot of noise about them 5 years ago, but that seems to have died down now in favor of the SoCs as well as OpenCL and C-gates compilation.