Trouble Of Board Description Editor

I would like to add that the documentation on the board description editor is

poor. I work with many PCB tools and I don't have one that puts out a wirelist netlist.

I manually edit my wirelist. Also the wirelist does not parse TABs. only the SPACE key.

That will really send a newbie for a ride figuring that one out.

It is nice and all to be able to have my U? designators in SOPC, but there must be a simpler way to map FPGA pins to components. Why not just use the "Board Settings" tab and pick the pins you want rather than go into the Black-Box Board Description editor.......I know it probaly is a portability thing with SOPC but I think the user should be able to do both.

It took a while to figure out why I had my pin assignments changing when I updated my CPU symbol.....I found out that even when the board description editor told me with the pin mapping viewer everthing was correct, it did something else.....not a fun bug to deal with. I had to fake out my custom component with extra address lines to nowhere to make it work.

Lots of frustration......had to spill out......sorry http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif