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From: Justin Smith <justin@aus.atmospherenet.com>
Subject: Altera Apex Is Flakey; How About Using FPGA Compiler II Instead?

John,

As part of the verification of our ASIC design, we plan to build an FPGA
based prototype using Altera 20K Apex devices.  Unfortunately we are having
problems compiling our VHDL directly with Quartus (Altera's Apex software).
We get lots of 'internal' errors, plus it appears that Quartus is quite
restricted in its VHDL support.  Another option would be to use Synopsys
FPGA Compiler II.  I was wondering if anyone has had any stories about using
FPGA Compiler II in conjunction with Altera Quartus ?

    - Justin Smith
      Atmosphere Networks               Osborne Park, Western Australia