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AMD Vivado Design Suite vs Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] comparison

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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
Zscaler Software [Private O...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
458th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
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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.
Carlos Snel - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Aquila ICT Solutions
Zero trust security has provided flexible protection and inspects real-time traffic effectively
From my perspective, I think about Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], not much could be improved. It is working very well. The only thing is about the POP presence, where you hook into a continent or country. In some countries, South America has some coverage, but not as much as for instance North America or Europe. If you talk with large enterprises or multinationals that are everywhere in the world present, they might need something in Africa. Africa is also a continent where you have more and more enterprises having their subsidiaries there. Africa is not covered very thoroughly, in my opinion. It only has South Africa with points of presence and then Egypt. It is either very up north or very down south. If you are in the middle of Africa, which is an extremely large continent, then you have delays and latencies. That is not very nice. However, that is not only counting for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]; this is also for all competitors. I am working with Cato Networks now for more than a year and the same story applies to them. I also know other competitors of Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] which have even less coverage. It is not something that I think everyone is keen on to expand in Africa because they do not see much traffic. However, if you have multinationals that are operating in Africa, then you cannot offer very good quality service because you have large latency if they are in the middle of Africa. Not even in the middle of Africa; if you talk about under Morocco, then you either connect to Cairo or you connect to Spain. Spain is closest, but if you always have redundancy, and if Spain falls out for whatever reason, even though that is not happening much because the data centers are very stable, then you have an enormous latency going to Cairo. Coming with this to more North Africa, if you talk about Angola and Mozambique in the middle of Africa, then you do not have much choice. You always have a lot of latency there. That is unfortunate. On the technical terms, that is where I stand. I mentioned this before, and it is still the same. I think I talked with you a few years back about this; I think three or four years ago. I mentioned exactly this topic then, and it is still the same. The other thing is, I think in terms of software, they are doing their best. They are buying in firms and buying in solutions, so they are expanding, and that is fine. I would rather say to Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer service because Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], even with large enterprises and huge companies that I work for, they notice that Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] service management is different. They are very big and they have less attention to client matters. If that would improve, it would be the best for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer success managers, but more attention to clients and more direct interface to the deep core of the company for client matters if they have questions or specific things that they do not currently have. If I have something with the client, I have sometimes to escalate to the vice president that I know because I worked with him before, and that is unfortunate. That should not be necessary to go that route. You should have things arranged directly with an account manager or customer success manager of your client if you have problems, or at least have responses saying, this is impossible, we cannot do that because of this, this, this, whatever. At least you should have an answer. I think in the future, everyone in the branch is focusing on AI and quantum computing as a mix. I think on that end, everyone in the domain is working hard to find the best solutions against those two challenges. I think Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] is doing their best as well there. That is the challenge for the upcoming years, to get the best answers to it. Eventually, they will compete with the same; fight it back with the same power. That means also with quantum computing or specially designed AI to attack back when attackers are attacking. I am not the genius saying that there will be a sort of war game coming up in the future in this domain. However, they are working on it, as all the others are doing, and I think that is absolutely the focus for the coming years because that is where everyone has concern about.

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

Pros

"The best features of AMD Vivado Design Suite is that it is a mature tool with a very good GUI."
"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."
"Using AMD Vivado Design Suite has helped me personally be more productive and improve the quality of my work."
"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 impacted my organization positively, as it was possible to implement projects that would not work otherwise."
"If people are working on FPGA design, AMD Vivado Design Suite is the one go-to tool that I would recommend for everyone."
"The integrated logic analyzer, ILA, has been the biggest game-changer for my workflow."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite has positively impacted our organization because it is a great tool that makes jobs easier."
"Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] itself, I think it is pretty good and I only get compliments from clients that are using it after the implementation; they like it."
"I use Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]'s real-time traffic inspection feature and find it helpful."
"Zscaler Software is very beneficial for my clients, reducing time by at least more than 50%, improving specific metrics through encrypted threat detection, increasing productivity, and reducing the workload of the analyst so they can respond faster."
 

Cons

"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."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite can be improved in some of its components."
"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."
"AMD Vivado Design Suite could be improved regarding speed; sometimes it will take so much time to show the schematics and performance analyzing tool."
"The graphical user interface for IP integration is a disaster and needs to be rewritten from scratch."
"Synthesis and implementation can take considerable time. When I experiment with many different configurations, the iteration cycle can become quite long."
"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."
"I consider AMD Vivado Design Suite a very large and complex tool, yet it can be slower than other integration tools."
"I would rather say to Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer service because Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], even with large enterprises and huge companies that I work for, they notice that Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] service management is different."
"Regarding Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], to be honest, we do not like it."
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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 needs improvement with Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]?
One area for improvement for Zscaler Software is that they should have their dependency on AI validated and verified. Because if they are a service provider, they are doing a good job, but they hav...
What is your primary use case for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]?
Zscaler Software provides cloud security as the use case for my clients.
 

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