( DAC 99 Item 20 ) ----------------------------------------------- [6/25/99]
"The drawbacks to their 'new' Avant! Nova-RTL linter are so many that
I felt a sense of outrage about who would be stupid enough to buy this
tool. A license is required even for people who have opened the GUI
and are entering their RTL code. Thus, you are 'encouraged' to buy
enough seats to support your entire design staff. There is no
batch-mode version available although it should be out 'soon' as well.
The scorecard might be attractive for managers who like to micromanage
their staff, but I fail to see how real users would really benefit
from it since they can easily turn off any checks that they want to
make the picture 'pretty'. The list price is $35k/seat which is way
overpriced for what this tool provides. Using a text editor, a
Verilog lint checker and/or purifier, and our own scanchek tool
provides an equivalent capability to this overpriced fluff."
- an anon engineer
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