mk79 wrote:If I had the choice I would always choose Intel, the Quartus software is way ahead of everything else I've seen, especially when it comes to debugging.
I agree that Quartus is the most user friendly, I worked with it for a decade or so.
mk79 wrote:Similar to Lattice where I only know ispLever and not Diamond.
You probably mean "ispLever Classic" for PLDs which I find even worse than the FPGA variant "ispLever" that I used for the Q68.
I still like toplevel schematics, and the schematic editor was at least usable in "ispLever". In "Diamond" that one has become complete crap.
For the Qzero I had to move to "Diamond", so there was no other way than to go text-only.
Apart from that, "Diamond" is an overall improvement, but still the build system sometimes screws up the project in a way that not even the full cleanup resolves. In the end I had to write my own cleanup scripts. Also the speed result of the Lattice synthesis tool is relatively poor for the free 68K cores.