Poll: Do you want the internal simulator back?

The elimination of the internal waveform editor/simulator is a tragedy. Of course, I don't have the big picture of whether the economic resources now freed for other things is more or less beneficial.

To test simple designs in terms of their logical validity, this internal tool was all you needed. It was expedient to use it in 99% of the cases. For the complex bigger designs, and for more realistic results, I find that the only way to go is some type of hardware in the loop using the signal tap together with matlab for example. It's always good to run all your code on the chip anyway. The timing based simulations are pretty much useless anyway. Don't waste your time on them. Try to test directly on the hardware platform.