MdntTrain wrote:

> Just curious -- what are the drawbacks to Xilinx ISE?

Well, my comment was a little tongue-in-cheek because I'm an Altera
"fanboy" 
but it is generally accepted that Altera's Quartus software is much nicer to 
use and far less buggy than Xilinx's ISE. I would concur that that is also 
my personal experience - I _hate_ using ISE and have experienced bugs in 
both the user interface aspect and the actual design synthesis as well.

Regards,

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