Altium CircuitStudio 2004 vs for FPGA support

[Bruce Ray]

Does anybody have experience with the Altium CircuitStudio 2004 product
compared with Altera's MAX+PLUS II Baseline (or other such products) that he
could share?

Bruce

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Bruce Ray wrote:

Does anybody have experience with the Altium CircuitStudio 2004 product
compared with Altera's MAX+PLUS II Baseline (or other such products) that he
could share?

Not yet. But on the way.
However these are a different kind of tools. While the Altium tool is
concerned with the FPGA on a board, the free webtools, such as MaxPlus2
do not care about the pcb. EG the Altium tool is able to optimally
assign the pin such that the routing on the pcb is simple. On MaxPlus2,
the pin assignment has to be done manually.

Rene

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Bruce Ray wrote:

Does anybody have experience with the Altium CircuitStudio 2004 product
compared with Altera's MAX+PLUS II Baseline (or other such products) that he
could share?

I forgot to add : The Altium Tolls require the free web versions of
Xilinx, Altera and such to do the actual (routing-)work. The Altium
tools are therefore to be regarded as layer on top of the others.

Rene
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