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3 years ago

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Chip planner - modern art?

Coming from Vivado, I don't understand how the Chip Planner can be useful to anybody. Here is an example: Why can't we see what block it is? its pins? Is it normal or there is an issue w...

alexislms
3 years ago
There aren't different tools, they are the exact same tool.

The second screenshot is the Vivado's Chip planner equivalent. It exactly shows the actual resources used by the device and we can even see the routing resources. Surprising how obsolete Intel is, isn't it?

We can even color the resources we want, with different colors: (source: https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/sw_manuals/xilinx2021_2/ug906-vivado-design-analysis.pdf)

I'll stop the comparison here, it's too shameful for Intel.

From your answers, I assume the view is correct and is expected.

Quartus is seriously miserable compared with the concurrent it tries to compete with.

alexislms

Contributor

3 years ago

There aren't different tools, they are the exact same tool.

The second screenshot is the Vivado's Chip planner equivalent. It exactly shows the actual resources used by the device and we can even see the routing resources. Surprising how obsolete Intel is, isn't it?

We can even color the resources we want, with different colors: (source: https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/support/documents/sw_manuals/xilinx2021_2/ug906-vivado-design-analysis.pdf)

I'll stop the comparison here, it's too shameful for Intel.

From your answers, I assume the view is correct and is expected.

Quartus is seriously miserable compared with the concurrent it tries to compete with.