Re: Alrium vs Xilinx
leonqin said:
why not use ISE directly?
because it's a BIG piece of s***t!
1. You have to download a windows+linux package. Why do i need to download linux files when I use only windows?!:?:
2. It's installing libraries for all known FPGA's, ever develloped by Xilinx.
3. It's based on xxx.xxx small files , more than in 10 operating sistems!!! It's an overkill for the antivirus.
4. To install latest version 11.1 you need 7G free on HDD, and to install update to the latest 11.3 version you need 10G more. It's huge, for the 50 files that you actually use for develloping with a specific FPGA.
5. I've deleted about 3.5G (except backup files) from it's installation folder, and it's still fully functional to my needs.
6. It won't work if you have an antivirus active. it won't compile project, saying some stupid "no write rights on xxx folder"
7. it's crash more often than windows 98.