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by kyzyl 3191 days ago
Amusingly, Xilinx makes dev tools that are so unbelievably bad that it's almost impossible to do any of the best practices for development that you would hope for in safety critical systems. No source control, code review, reproducible builds, integration testing, centralized code review, etc.

Presumably you can sort of brute force it if you have defense level budgets, but it's a seriously bad situation.

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Yeah last time I used Vivado a couple years ago, version control on the project was a nightmare. Reproducible builds seem to be a problem with stock FPGA synthesis tools in general.