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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

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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.

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We have been using dsp builder extensively for the last 5 years and it is great tool. entire chains of dsp are done in few days including control and glue logic.

It is excellent for speed and resource as well. But requires lot of testing knowledge.

The only area when it is not used is project level integration and some cases of dsp modules that are not yet supported e.g. a lut based filter rather than regular filter or an nco dedicated to specific sampling rate.