[jjoonathan]

Xilinx keeps advertising the bejeesus out of their AI p&r, but I haven't touched these tools in years -- how much do the claims translate to reality?

[rowanG077]

Considering my experience with Xilinx, the more they advertise it the harder it sucks.

[UncleOxidant]

Xilinx design tools are some of the buggiest pieces of software known to humankind. Altera(Intel) not far behind.

[reportingsjr]

This applies to basically all electronics design tools. Insanely expensive ($5-100k per seat per year is common) and insanely buggy.

Altium, considered one of the best PCB cad tools, hard crashes for me every hour or two of design work I do.