Philip Balister wrote:
The Xilinx versus Altera is not ideal, but the FPGA configuration should be easy to move between the two FPGA's.
Just curious - what's the driver in the choice between Xilinx and Altera? I've been using Xilinx for many years now and have been fairly happy with them. At a previous job though, my colleagues insisted that Altera was their preference. These days I don't know much about the differences.
In any case, well written HDL should port between the two fairly seamlessly. I find Xilinx's tools to be fairly good at inference, so there's usually no need to instantiate vendor-specific features except in a top-level wrapper where I/O and clock management becomes critical.
Eric
