Poll: Do you want the internal simulator back?

New doesn’t always mean better - and it certainly doesn’t mean that its the best tool for the job.

Your $20k 8 giga-sample oscilloscope is a much more sophisticated voltmeter than your $3 harbor-freight POS digital voltmeter, but when you are trying to figure out if the 9 volt battery in your kids toy is any good, which are you going to use? Guess I will go drag out the Agilent digitizer on Christmas morning – “Wait here patently Mary while daddy finds a 240 volt outlet, and lets win7 boot up in his voltmeter"

Every tool has a purpose. The simulator is no different. Am I going to use the simulator to verify my PID control loop - no! ModelSim is a better tool for that. Am I going to use ModelSim to see what I messed up in my one-shot circuit? Guess I have no choice now.. While I am at it I am going to throw out all of my crescent wrenches – the ratchet set I got has made them obsolete.

The thing is, just because the "industry" is doing something stupid doesn’t mean that Altera should too. The industry is full of stupid ideas that failed. Altera used to be a leader of indistry - now they are a follower I guess.

As for Karnaugh maps and pencils argument –FAIL– Did anyone take your sheets of paper and pencils away when they dropped that Intel box on your desk, or does your office still have a supply cabinet? Guess that when you need to write a note to someone in your office you use MS power point instead of a post-it.