<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> I mean I wrote all of my thesis code in v2005 because I still had a lot of Spartan-6s in the test board farm and ISE was, well, ISE.</p><p>But yeah, early vivado was missing a lot of SV features that I now use heavily. Interfaces make e.g. AMBA buses so much less painful to use. My somewhat cynical opinion is that the ip integrator exists in large part because SV support wasn't up to the point of enabling one-liner AXI connections between modules.</p><p>So rather than fixing their frontend they created a giant bloated pile of XML and slow tcl+java based code generation.</p>
