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Dear Sirs,
I'm using Microchip PIC's as programmable laboratory timer among other things, but the 100ns instruction cycles are not adequate anymore. So I thought of beefing it up with a 5M40Z MAX-V CPLD which has 5ns end-to-end delay, bought the programmer and downloaded the Quartus Prime Lite Edition software, and everything came to a grinding halt.
The Quartus toolchain is a piece of eclectic patchwork and it spews out un-googleable error messages with every click of the mouse. I'm not complaining about the Altera Hardware Description Language (AHDL), it's the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's the culprit here.
Question: Can anyone suggest some alternatives? It has to be cheap and work out of the box?
Best regards
Abim
I'm using Microchip PIC's as programmable laboratory timer among other things, but the 100ns instruction cycles are not adequate anymore. So I thought of beefing it up with a 5M40Z MAX-V CPLD which has 5ns end-to-end delay, bought the programmer and downloaded the Quartus Prime Lite Edition software, and everything came to a grinding halt.
The Quartus toolchain is a piece of eclectic patchwork and it spews out un-googleable error messages with every click of the mouse. I'm not complaining about the Altera Hardware Description Language (AHDL), it's the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's the culprit here.
Question: Can anyone suggest some alternatives? It has to be cheap and work out of the box?
Best regards
Abim