What do you mean by this kind of shit? I am in the FPGA space for quite some time now but I don’t think something like this happened before. When did you leave and what are you using now?
I agree with you on the support. If there isn’t an (unpaid) member in the community forum or on some other platform you are pretty much fucked. I never used another vendor, so I can’t say if it is different there though.
Xilinx has turned asshole against us, because their reseller misreported numbers. Our boss was fuming after the conference and told me to find another vendor.
We are now using Efinix chips and their forum and direct support is wonderful. I had discussions with their tool developers about UI design decisions that actually led to improvements. Imagine trying to get something like that done with Xilinx - they have grown too big to care unless you buy millions of chips.
What do you mean by this kind of shit? I am in the FPGA space for quite some time now but I don’t think something like this happened before. When did you leave and what are you using now? I agree with you on the support. If there isn’t an (unpaid) member in the community forum or on some other platform you are pretty much fucked. I never used another vendor, so I can’t say if it is different there though.
Xilinx has turned asshole against us, because their reseller misreported numbers. Our boss was fuming after the conference and told me to find another vendor.
We are now using Efinix chips and their forum and direct support is wonderful. I had discussions with their tool developers about UI design decisions that actually led to improvements. Imagine trying to get something like that done with Xilinx - they have grown too big to care unless you buy millions of chips.
Nice, seems like it was a good decisions. Do you miss anything from the Xilinx world?
The free simulator.