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AMD Vivado Design Suite vs ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comparison

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AMD Vivado Design Suite
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
189th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Alen Cherian - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Digital ASIC design engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Created complex video pipelines and now design reusable IP-based FPGA projects efficiently
The best features of AMD Vivado Design Suite is that it is a mature tool with a very good GUI. The most fascinating feature is its block design feature, which allows me to add and drop various IPs from AMD Vivado Design Suite's IP catalog and create a block design for my video designs. That is the one feature that I find very interesting. It is also very easy to source control AMD Vivado Design Suite projects using Git. The IP catalog is another valuable feature, and it is a very good tool that I install on all of my employees' project devices.
reviewer2855598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud DevOps Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
CIS hardening has simplified secure container workloads but AppArmor still blocks Docker by default
The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box. Containers fail to start with a permission denied on the containerd task directory. There is no documentation about this. A simple note explaining that Docker users need to either update the runc AppArmor profile or disable it would save a lot of debugging time. It takes a while to trace the failure back to AppArmor blocking runc writes to /run/containerd/.

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Pros

"Using AMD Vivado Design Suite has helped me personally be more productive and improve the quality of my work."
"To others considering using AMD Vivado Design Suite, I recommend that it can be a fantastic tool for various applications, emphasizing the importance of integrating with third-party software."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite has positively impacted my organization because it helped very well by having everything in one tool."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite has positively impacted our organization because it is a great tool that makes jobs easier."
"I really appreciate the IP Integrator in AMD Vivado Design Suite, but the real benefit is the integration with AMD Xilinx FPGAs."
"If people are working on FPGA design, AMD Vivado Design Suite is the one go-to tool that I would recommend for everyone."
"What I appreciated most about my use case or the project is having the complete FPGA development workflow with AMD Vivado Design Suite."
"The best features of AMD Vivado Design Suite is that it is a mature tool with a very good GUI."
"ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is an excellent choice for organizations adopting cloud-native technologies and modern DevOps practices."
"Once you get that launch template dialed in, the image is incredibly solid."
"The pre-applied CIS L1 benchmark is the main selling point, as getting a hardened baseline without manual effort is genuinely useful and the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base also means I'm on a supported, up-to-date kernel with long-term security patches."
"The hourly software charge is small relative to the engineering time we used to spend building and maintaining our own hardened AMI."
"The same-day engineering support has been very valuable."
 

Cons

"AMD Vivado Design Suite can be improved in some of its components."
"Synthesis and implementation can take considerable time. When I experiment with many different configurations, the iteration cycle can become quite long."
"I consider AMD Vivado Design Suite a very large and complex tool, yet it can be slower than other integration tools."
"The design suite is very effective for its intended purpose, but it has many software bugs and is sometimes counter-intuitive, which makes the workflow worse."
"The only disadvantage would be the CLI and UI not being on the same page, and I personally have run into a lot of issues on that aspect."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite could be improved regarding speed; sometimes it will take so much time to show the schematics and performance analyzing tool."
"Do not directly go into AMD Vivado Design Suite because it can be very complex for first-time users; first, you should understand the basics such as digital design fundamentals and signals and systems."
"I think the build times in certain projects are an area for improvement. When the design gets bigger, the build times to generate the bitstream can take hours."
"Enterprise management and compliance tooling could be more comprehensive out of the box."
"Because the firewall ships default-deny, the first launch in a new environment takes a little planning to open the exact ports the app and load balancer health checks need."
"The CIS L1 AppArmor enforcement breaks Docker out of the box."
"It'd be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so we can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it ourselves."
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Construction Company
34%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AMD Vivado Design Suite?
I think the build times in certain projects are an area for improvement. When the design gets bigger, the build times to generate the bitstream can take hours. The algorithm to generate the bitstre...
What is your primary use case for AMD Vivado Design Suite?
I mainly use AMD Vivado Design Suite for creating designs for AMD's Zynq SoC FPGAs. I tried creating a video pipeline for a Zynq design on the Zybo ZC10 board to capture video coming from an IMX219...
What advice do you have for others considering AMD Vivado Design Suite?
I cannot comment on any of the AI capabilities of AMD Vivado Design Suite because I have not used that yet for my personal projects. I have not used any of the latest AI features available in AMD V...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
The hourly premium is honestly negligible compared to the salary hours I was wasting building, patching, and maintaining my own custom images. If you have a decent-sized fleet, look at the total co...
What needs improvement with ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
It would be cool to have more detailed changelogs with each new release so I can see exactly what packages got updated without having to boot up a test instance and diff it myself.
What is your primary use case for ClearScale Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?
I run a bunch of stateless REST APIs and web apps in AWS behind an Application Load Balancer. Everything lives in Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs). I use this AMI as the default base for those instances ...
 

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