標題: EDA Tools feeling old? [打印本頁] 作者: chip123 時間: 2006-12-6 09:41 AM 標題: EDA Tools feeling old? scottaronbloom：; D% D9 x3 j2 W4 r! ^8 ?8 `( T L$ E
Is it me, or are the look and feel of current FPGA centric EDA tools looking really old? 2 d% c/ K$ n# I" O/ z/ m- @2 R8 S
Synplify looked new and refreshing 10 years ago.. Precision was great 4 years ago... Has Aldec or Modelsim changed at all in look and feel in the last 8-10 years? The FPGA OEM tools, well some are still using the core system that they bought some 10+ years ago for their IDE. - F7 p7 v9 |0 X* M0 G0 v# aSure the algorithms have been updated, as has QofR and runtime.. 7 k$ P( s( F+ K% G% e; G; T
Why is it that EDA always puts look and feel so far behind everything else? " z. I7 t) p1 x! b' v1 J7 E9 v5 }: [
ripple： + \, h7 w: S+ _: [always, a new look and feel with the same function under the tool button makes me feel fooled. When Protel 99 became Altium 2004, I spent some time to familialize myself with the new IDE, but soon found that except for some new functions added the fundamental place and route tool are the same.