Comment by odmkSeijin

I understand there is some validity with this criticism. Xilinx has always been slow to adopt standard software development practices. But really, Xilinx tools have never cost 'multi-tens of thousand dollar's. The most expensive tools are several thousand dollars. There are also free tools for smaller devices / certain flows. Source control is done with tcl scripting (simple text files) and standard source control tools. It's not as bad as it was in the past. Cheers.