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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Schematic entry (4th generation) vs. VHDL/Verilog (3rd generation)

Over the past 30 years I've seen languages come and go. I started programming in assembler, and have since graduated to many 2nd and 3rd generation languages. I tend to shy away from 4th generation...
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15 years ago

Portability is highly overrated.

A few questions / observations:
  • Are you using a portable toolchain, i.e. only using Quartus II to place and route.
  • Do you develop IP for third party use (commercial)
  • Do you plan on switching between competitors?

I am absolutely sure that 80 percent of the of the forum-vistors will answer three times no