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I certainly wasn't trying to trash Xilinx, there's a few things I like better (than Altera) about there product model and dev boards - more friendly to hobbyists (IMHO), but I do think the Altera IDE (Quartus II 10.1) is better. Maybe I didn't look deep enough. Does xilinx ISE have an Embedded 32 bit processor (NIOS II)? and an IDE to develope software for the processor (Eclipse)? Can you view the topology of the chip and see where it physicaly assigned the hardware? Do they have a virtual logic probe to view signal simulation at any point in the circuit(Micrium Uc probe)? These are just some of the things I value with Altera, and I really don't know if Xilinx has these features.
I'm trying to get this board re-initiated by Avnet. It's one of the cheapest and most versatile FPGA boards that one can possibly find. Apparently, the company has marked it end-of-life.
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