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AMD Vivado Design Suite vs Visual Studio Professional 2022 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AMD Vivado Design Suite
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
16th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Visual Studio Professional ...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
436th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
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.
Nishant Thakkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at WTW
Building AI-assisted disposable research tools has transformed how I automate data gathering
I believe IntelliSense is a good tool to work with, but I wish it could be strengthened in terms of auto suggestions and code rectification. It is efficient at this moment but has room for improvement. Firstly, there is room for improvement in IntelliSense auto suggestion and auto compilation. Although it is very good and robust, it can be improved. Secondly, I have noticed that it sometimes takes a little time to start up and can be a bit slow, perhaps because it consumes lots of RAM or CPU resources. If that can be improved, it would be beneficial. Regarding Visual Studio Professional 2022's AI capabilities, I believe it needs some improvement in accuracy and reliability. At the moment, while AI provides suggestions, I have to review and edit them. Although it has its concerns, it is good in that AI now gives a first draft, whereas in the past, humans had to write everything from scratch.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"AMD Vivado Design Suite has positively impacted our organization because it is a great tool that makes jobs easier."
"The integrated logic analyzer, ILA, has been the biggest game-changer for my workflow."
"What I appreciated most about my use case or the project is having the complete FPGA development workflow with AMD Vivado Design Suite."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite has impacted my organization positively, as it was possible to implement projects that would not work otherwise."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite has positively impacted my organization because it helped very well by having everything in one tool."
"The best features of AMD Vivado Design Suite is that it is a mature tool with a very good GUI."
"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."
"The benefits that Visual Studio Professional 2022 provides combined with the pricing makes it a good choice."
"Capability in Visual Studio Professional 2022 means it is supporting all things like testing for my testing purpose, as well as the development; everything is integrated in Visual Studio Professional 2022."
"Visual Studio Professional 2022 is a fully functional IDE with advanced capabilities that provide an edge over other platforms."
"Visual Studio has pretty good support for Git conflict resolving features."
 

Cons

"Synthesis and implementation can take considerable time. When I experiment with many different configurations, the iteration cycle can become quite long."
"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."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite can be improved in some of its components."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite could be improved with clearer error messages, more actionable suggestions for resolving timing violations, and a more responsive interface when working with large designs."
"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."
"I consider AMD Vivado Design Suite a very large and complex tool, yet it can be slower than other integration tools."
"The graphical user interface for IP integration is a disaster and needs to be rewritten from scratch."
"One area I could suggest regarding improvements in deployment efficiency using Visual Studio Professional 2022 is that the context-aware code suggestion should be more tailored."
"Apart from the editing feature, I would like to see improvement in Visual Studio Professional 2022 because performance has dropped significantly, making it currently about 100 times slower than Qt Creator, which is unreasonable to use in a multi-core environment such as the 128 cores that I use."
"Currently, Visual Studio Professional 2022 is not supporting the .TS, TypeScript code, which is a disadvantage, because with Playwright, we can do that in C#, but having Playwright code with TypeScript, I am not able to see any project or any suggestion about the .TS code."
"Regarding Visual Studio Professional 2022's AI capabilities, I believe it needs some improvement in accuracy and reliability."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
30%
Educational Organization
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with AMD Vivado Design Suite?
AMD Vivado Design Suite could be modernized so it does not function as a 1970s tool, particularly in the areas of technology mapping, placement, and routing where it could perform more intelligent ...
What is your primary use case for AMD Vivado Design Suite?
My main use case for AMD Vivado Design Suite is the design of FPGAs for educational purposes and also for solving contracting problems for interfacing chips. In a recent project, I used AMD Vivado ...
What advice do you have for others considering AMD Vivado Design Suite?
My advice to others looking into using AMD Vivado Design Suite is to avoid it if you can. I rate AMD Vivado Design Suite a three on a scale of one to ten because it is quite poor. It is not a total...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Professional 2022?
I am using the free version of Visual Studio Professional 2022. I find the price of Visual Studio Professional 2022 to be affordable.
What needs improvement with Visual Studio Professional 2022?
Currently, Visual Studio Professional 2022 is not supporting the .TS, TypeScript code, which is a disadvantage, because with Playwright, we can do that in C#, but having Playwright code with TypeSc...
What is your primary use case for Visual Studio Professional 2022?
I am using Visual Studio Professional 2022 for test automation. For test automation, I use only Visual Studio and VS Code; I use VS Code for my Playwright and Visual Studio for my Selenium C#.
 

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