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These include strictly FPGA-related tools such as Floorplanner
and pure-software development tools such as SDK. The
ambitious objective is to provide a complete, user friendly,
integrated environment that allows software developers to deal
with FPGA development even if they are not familiar with this
technology, by hiding a lot of its complexities
. As usual this
ease of use comes at the expense of control and flexibility. This
could not be acceptable in many cases where engineers need to
control and customize many aspects of the project to
implement what is required by system specifications. For this
reason BELK has been built around Vivado but some deviations
from the default development approach suggested by Xilinx
have been introduced, in order to push the modularization and
the maintainability of the projects to the maximum extent.
More details about this can be found in chapter 3 on page 23.
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Nevertheless, FPGA developers will find all the traditional tools that allow complete control of FPGA fabric.
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