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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

So for larger designs, it's still not a viable full system solution? (obviously depending on interfaces etc).

What I did like about HDL coder back then was the integrated testing it offered. We had the system all architected in matlab/simulink, so I could swap out blocks for HDL coded ones and even hand code via the Modelsim Co-simulation block, and it allowed a nice closed loop test with system blocks and VHDL.